AFRICA and ASIA Entanglements in Past and Present : Bridging History and Development Studies
Author: Katsuhiko Kitagawa.
Kitagawa, Katsuhiko. 2016. "AFRICA and ASIA Entanglements in Past and Present : Bridging History and Development Studies." 212. Osaka: https://kuir.jm.kansai-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10112/9662/1/KU-1100-20160200-01.pdf
The history of Africans outside of Africa has been one of the neglected issues in the historiographies on the Indian Ocean World studies for so long time. Some exceptions are found in the studies of Africans in South Asia, but most of them are ethnographical studies and do not investigate its history so much.1 In addition, these focus on some certain settlements in particular location and miss the connection to other regions. On the other hand, there are plenty of studies on migration history, but these do not focus on Africans. It is only around the beginning of the twenty-first century when pioneer studies on the history of Africa outside of Africa in the Indian Ocean World have come out. A large pushing factor for this trend is the concept of African diaspora which emerged and has been developing mostly in the Atlantic studies. With help of results in the Atlantic studies, Shihan de Silva Jayasuria, Richard Pankurst, Edward A. Alpers and some other scholars have produced pioneer works on African diaspora in the Indian Ocean World, and not a few scholars join this trend later and now a once-hidden aspect of Indian Ocean World history is explored.2Published: 2016Typ: conferencePaperISBN: