Asia – Indonesia
Ricardo Paulo Chibanga (1942-2019)
Ricardo Paulo Chibanga is recognized as the world’s first documented African bullfighter. He was born on November 8, 1942, in...
The Black Pacific, 1919-1941: African Americans and Asia in the Interwar Period
In the following article novelist and independent historian Amy Sommers briefly outlines the experience of African Americans in Asia between...
Clara Mae Ward (1924-1973)
Clara Mae Ward, one of the most outstanding soloists and conductors in gospel history, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on...
TransAtlantic Food Migration: The African Culinary Influence on the Cuisine of the Americas
In the article below, culinary historian Diane M. Spivey describes the centuries-old diaspora of African foods and cooking traditions in...
Fighting For Freedom, Fighting Against the Bomb: African Americans and the Campaign for a Nuclear-Free World, 1945-
In the description of his 2015 book, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement,...
The Asian-African (Bandung) Conference: Fact and Fiction
In the article below independent historian Kyle Haddad-Fonda describes the Asian-African Conference popularly known as the Bandung Conference which was...
Zhou Enlai’s African “Safari” (1963-1964)
Zhou Enlai’s first tour of Africa, popularly known as Zhou’s “Safari,” was a series of state visits to ten independent...
Afro-Asian Writers’ Conferences (1958-1979)
W.E.B. DuBois Greeting Unidentified Delegate, Afro-Asian Writers’ Conference, Tashkent, Soviet Union, 1958 Image Ownership: Public domain The Afro–Asian Writers’ Conferences...
Thomas Nathaniel Burbridge (1921–1972)
Image Courtesy of UCSF Archives and Special Collections Medical professor and civil rights leader Thomas Nathaniel Burbridge was born in...
