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AMERICAS, ISLAM IN THE: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim ...
Sylviane Anna Diouf

Macmillan Reference USA, 2004

?Islam and the Muslim World? will help people understand the fastest growing religion in the United States and the dominant religion in a wide area of the rest of the world. This informative and interesting new encyclopedia explores an increasingly important force in the modern world, looking at Islam's role in the modern world, in the context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries, and contains thematic articles, ...

Kings and Queens of Central Africa
Sylviane A. Diouf

Topeka Bindery, 2001

Readers travel to the heart of Africa and trace Central Africa's geographical, political and social evolution through its greatest rulers in this revealing volume. Focus is given to the 15th-century Kongo king Afonso I, the first to introduce European religion, goods and know-how to the region. Afonso wanted to deal with Europe on an equal footing but could not stop the slave trade that eventually sent millions of people from the region to the ...

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

4 reviews
Sylviane A Diouf

Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Wonderfully researched personal stories
Dreams of Africa in Alabama is a beautifully written and meticulous book. It's evident that Ms. Diouf spent a considerable amount of time and detail with her research. The author describes the Alabama slave trade and the events that lead to the maiden voyage of the modified schooner, Clotilda. She devotes two chapters to the lives of the "shipmates" - one prior to their capture and the other ...

Fighting Slave Trade: West African Strategies (Western African Studies)

1 review
Sylviane A. Diouf

Ohio University Press, 2003

Final Grade: C+
This book is in fact not written by Diouf but is a collection of over a dozen different essays that discuss how slavery affected West Africa. The book automatically wins points for simply addressing this topic, especially because most books about African enslavement are about its existence in the Western Hemisphere. This book helps bring to light the fact that West Africans did not go ...

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

1 review
Schomburg Center For Research, Howard Dodson, ...

National Geographic, 2005

A Profound Study
More than any other differentiated group of people, African Americans have moved. The first section of this book, covers 1450 to 1865. In this period, large numbers of slaves were transported from Africa to America. This book covers this part of our time in great detail including both transportation, runaways, and the domestic slave trade. After the Civil War, the freed-slaves began their ...

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

18 reviews
Sylviane Diouf

NYU Press, 1998

Finally a sincere, well-researched text on a group who has been kept silent far too long.
Diouf's "Servants of Allah" is one of the few highly researched and well written accounts of the West African Muslims history in the context of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book, in my opinion is an undeniable truth in the face of the few so called "afrikan-centered scholars" (very well known, btw) who blindly and blatantly bash and reject the religion of Islam and its African ...

Growing Up in Crawfish Country: A Cajun Childhood (Growing Up in America)
Karen Gravelle, Sylviane Diouf

Franklin Watts, 1999

Describes aspects of contemporary life such as special traditions, religious beliefs, music, foods, ways of talking, and languages found among the people of Cajun country in Louisiana.

Bintou's Braids

4 reviews
Sylviane A. Diouf

Topeka Bindery, 2004

"My hair is short and fuzzy."
In a heartwarming story that reflects on family and tradition, Bintou, a child, grows up in her West African village yearning to have long braids like the older girls, with seashells and coins attached in the ancestral tradition. Poor Bintou only has four little tufts of hair wrapped in colored string, nothing nearly as attractive as the older girls. Bintou's baby brother is soon to be baptized ...

Kings and Queens of East Africa
Sylviane A. Diouf

Topeka Bindery, 2001

East Africa is characterized by great variety in peoples, cultures, and religions. Great kingdoms have emerged here. The most ancient flourished in Nubia, in the Sudan, 5,000 years ago. In the 19th century, Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar repelled two European invasions, and King Yambio of the Azande in Southern Sudan fought against slave dealers, a Northern incursion and several European powers. Menelik II of Ethiopia thwarted Italy's attempt ...

Kings and Queens of East Africa
Sylviane A. Diouf

Scholastic Library Pub, 2000

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