Transatlantic Slavery, Starches and Healing in the African Diaspora

Dive into the rich stories of healing, food, and history that connect the African Diaspora. Enjoy a free lecture and community dinner. Kwasi Konadu is an award-winning historian, healer, publisher, and formerly the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor at Colgate University. He teaches courses on African history and African diasporic histories and culture. He is the author of Many Black Women of this Fortress (Hurst/Oxford U. Press, 2022); Africa’s Gold Coast through Portuguese Sources, 1471-1671 (British Academy/Oxford U. Press, 2022); Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation (Duke U. Press, 2019); The Ghana Reader (Duke U. Press, 2016); Transatlantic Africa (Oxford U. Press, 2015); and The Akan Diaspora in the Americas (Oxford U. Press, 2010).

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