AFRICAN AMERICANS AND AFRICA, a new history

266pp., illus., paperback, New Haven, 2019

“Blyden has produced a fascinating book on the relationship between African Americans and the African continent from the era of slavery, to the late-nineteenth-century movements to return African Americans to West Africa, to the twentieth-century civil rights movement, to the eventual presidency of Barack Obama in the twenty-first century." Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs

“Blyden has filled a gap in the scholarship on the relationship between African Americans and Africa by offering a synthetic narrative that contextualizes African American history firmly within the history of the African Diaspora.” Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska–Lincoln