VISIT BY
DR SYLVIANE ANNA DIOUF
INTERNATIONALLLY RENOWNED AUTHOR LECTURER AND RESEARCHER,
FOR THE EMANCIPATION CELEBRATIONS 2006
HOSTED BY THE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE OF NASRUL ILM

Dr Diouf received a doctorate from the University of Paris, and had careers in journalism, diplomacy, and academia. She has taught at Libreville University and New York University and lectured extensively, notably at the Library of Congress, Columbia, Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale.

She has lived in France, Senegal, Gabon, and Italy, and has been residing in New York for several years. She is researcher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Dr Diouf has been published extensively in European and African magazines and has written several contributions to academic books and journals. Television appearances include: ABC Like It Is ; the PBS documentary This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys; and the PBS series History Detectives.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF HER VISIT

· LAUNCHING OF EMANCIPATIONS IN POINT FORTIN : A 3-DAY EXTRAVAGANZA
10.30am Monday July 31 Point Fortin Borough Hall

“ CELEBRATING THE PIONEERS OF EMANCIPATION OBSERVANCES IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO”

· LECTURE SERIES:
4.00pm Monday July 31
Point Fortin Borough Hall
“African Families: From There to Here”

6.30 pm Tuesday August 1
San Fernando, Harris Promenade
“African Resistance: From Africa to the Americas”

7.00 pm Wednesday August 2
City Hall, Port of Spain
“African Muslims' Contributions to Caribbean History and Culture”

· YOUTH PROGRAMME:

9.00am -12.00 noon Wednesday August 2 City Hall, Port of Spain

ª Exciting True History of African Royalty
ª Snack & Funtime
ª Capoeira African Martial Arts Display by Master Azulao Zumba
ª Story –Telling from Africa

· BOOK SIGNING, DISPLAY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE FILM:
Thursday August 03, 2006 7.00pm at NALIS Audio Visual Room Port –of –Spain

· PILGRIMAGE HIKE INTO THE VALENCIA FOREST TO AFRICAN HERITAGE SITE
EMANCIPATION DAY Tuesday August 01, 2006
ALL MEET AT THE VALENCIA JUNCTION FOR 8.30AM

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RADIO PROGRAMME SCHEDULE- RADIO WACK 90.1 FM

BEGINNING MONDAY JULY 24 2006

. Monday 24th July – 9.30am to 10.00am – ½ hour THE PIONEERS OF THE EMANCIPATION OBSERVANCES

IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

· Tuesday 25th July – 7.00pm to 8.00pm – 1 hour THE QUARE HONDO RIVER AFRICAN MUSLIM HERITAGE SITE 1819 –1843

· Wednesday 26th July – 9.30am to 10.00am – ½ hour SLAVERY , EMANCIPATION AND APPRENTICESHIP 1834 –1838

· Thursday 27th July – 9.30am to 10.00am – ½ hour POINT FORTIN EMANCIPATION CELEBRATIONS

· Friday 28th July – 9.30am to 10.00am – ½ hour THE IMPACT OF SLAVE REVOLTS ON THE EMANCIPATION MOVEMENT

· Saturday 29th July – 9.30am to 10.00am – ½ hour SAN FERNANDO EMANCIPATION CELEBRATIONS

· Monday 31th July – 8.00pm to 9.00pm – 1 hour SERVANTS OF ALLAH

--- GUEST Dr Sylvianne Anna Diouf

Most recent academic works: African immigrants in France and in the United States; Mandingo in the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade; studies on West Africans in New York; and West African reformists and the transatlantic slave trade.

She is co-editor -with Howard Dodson- of In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, published by National Geographic in January 2005. And she is also the Content Manager of the Web site on which this book was based. The only one of its kind, this site presents 17,000 pages of text (books, book chapters, articles, and manuscripts) 8,300 images, maps and lesson plans.

Author of Servants of Allah: Africans Enslaved in the Americas (NY University Press, 1998) celebrated as the first book to retrace the 500 year-old story of West African communities in the New World.

1999 Outstanding Academic Book, Servants of Allah also received Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Books Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights.

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies (Ohio University Press, 2003), was presented at an international conference at Rutgers University in 2001.

Among her history books for younger readers: Kings and Queens of West Africa –part of a four-book series—received the 2001 African Studies Association Africana Book Award for Older Readers.

Bintou's Braids has been reviewed with acclaim by The New York Times

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