Africa

United States of America

Assistant Professor

George Washington University, Washington, DC

nemata@gwu.edu

Department of History
307 Phillips Hall
George Washington University
Washington, D.C. 20052 USA

See: https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/nemata-blyden

phone: 202 994 3318

Education: Ph.D.(African history), Yale University, May 1998.

Research interests: African History ; Diaspora studies.

African Americans and Africa: A New History, Yale University Press, 2019

"(Re) envisioning the African diaspora: historical memory and cross-fertilization in post-colonial
Sierra Leone." In Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid (eds.) Paradoxes of history and memory
in post-colonial Sierra Leone. (Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013])

"Relationships among Blacks in the diaspora: African and Caribbean immigrants and American-born Blacks."
In John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang, Thomas Owusu (eds.) Africans in global migration:
searching for promised lands. (Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012)

"'We have the cause of Africa at heart': West Indians and African Americans in 19th century Freetown."
in Mac Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole (eds.) New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio.
(Peter Lang : New York, c2006)

"The Search for Anna Erskine: African American Women in Nineteenth-Century Liberia." in
Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss, Earline Rae Ferguson (eds.) Stepping forward:
black women in Africa and the Americas. (Athens: Ohio University Press, c2002)

West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: A diaspora in reverse.
(Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000)

"Edward Jones, An African-American in Sierra Leone" in John
Pulis (ed.) Movin On : Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World.
(Garland Press, 1999).

african history ; diaspora studies.