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'''Sylviane Anna Diouf''' is a historian and curator of the [[African diaspora]]. She is a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at [[Brown University]] and a member of the Scientific Committee of the [[International Coalition of Sites of Conscience]]. Her contribution as a social historian, she stressed, "May be the uncovering of essential stories and topics that were overlooked or negated, but which actually offer new insights into the experience of the African Diaspora. A scholar said my work re-shapes and re-directs our understanding of this history; it shifts our attention, corrects the historical record, and reveals hidden and forgotten voices."<ref>''Callaloo'', Fall 2016</ref>


==Early life and education==
'''Sylviane Anna Diouf''' is an award-winning historian and curator of the African Diaspora. She is a Visiting Scholar at the [https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/ Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice], Brown University and a member of the Scientific Committee of the [https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/membership/maison-des-esclaves-senegal/ International Coalition of Sites of Conscience]. Her contribution as a social historian, she stressed, "may be the uncovering of essential stories and topics that were overlooked or negated, but which actually offer new insights into the experience of the African Diaspora. A scholar said my work re-shapes and re-directs our understanding of this history; it shifts our attention, corrects the historical record, and reveals hidden and forgotten voices."<ref>''Callaloo'', Fall 2016</ref>
Diouf was born in [[France]] to a [[Senegal|Senegalese]] physicist and a French school principal. She is a descendant of [[Khaly Amar Fall]] (1555-1638), the founder (in 1603) of Pir, the Senegalese institute of higher Islamic studies.<ref>sylvianediouf.com</ref> Historical figures such as [[Sulayman Bal]] and [[Abdul Kader (almami)|Abdel Kader Kane]] who blocked the slave trade on the [[Senegal River]] in the 18th century studied at Pir. Many Islamic reformists and later opponents of colonization were also students there and in 1870 the French burned down the school. But it was rebuilt and still exists.<ref>Demba Lamine Diouf, Khally Amar Fall, fondateur de l'université de Pire, Centre d'étude des civilisations, 1988</ref> Diouf studied at [[Paris Diderot University|Université Denis Diderot]] in Paris and has lived and traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. She lives in New York.


==Academic work==
==Early Life and Education==
In addition to publishing pioneering scholarly works on African Diasporan themes, Diouf has written black history children's books, curated gallery and online exhibitions, lectured widely on the global black experience, and appeared as an expert in documentary films."<ref>''Callaloo'', Fall 2016</ref>
Dr. Diouf was born in France, the daughter of a Senegalese physicist and a French school principal. She's a descendant of [http://www.compolitik.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&catid=84&Itemid=473 Khaly Amar Fall] (1555-1638) founder, in 1603, of Pir, the famous Senegalese institute of higher Islamic studies.<ref>sylvianediouf.com</ref>Historical figures such as Suleyman Bal and Abdel Kader Kane who blocked the slave trade on the Senegal River in the 18th century studied at Pir. Many Islamic reformists and later opponents of colonization were also students there and in 1870 the French burned down the school. But it was rebuilt and still exists.<ref>Demba Lamine Diouf, Khally Amar Fall, fondateur de l'université de Pire, Centre d'étude des civilisations, 1988</ref> Diouf studied at [[Paris Diderot University|Universite%20Denis%20Diderot Universite Denis Diderot]] in Paris and has lived and traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. She lives in New York.


Her book ''Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America'' (Oxford University Press, 2007) is the first to tell the story, in minute details, of the 110 young Africans from Benin and Nigeria, who were brought in July 1860 to Alabama on the last recorded slave ship to the United States. It received the [[Wesley Logan Prize]] of the American Historical Association and the James Sulzby Award of the [[Alabama Historical Association]]. It was a finalist for the [[Hurston/Wright Legacy Award]]. The discovery, in 2019, of the wreck of the ''Clotilda'' in Mobile has brought international attention to this story.<ref>Last American Slave Ship Is Discovered in Alabama, ''National Geographic'', May 2019</ref><ref>[https://therealnews.com/stories/last-slave-ship-found-on-alabama-coast-validates-descendants-stories Last Slave Ship Found on Alabama Coast]</ref>
==Academic Work==
In addition to publishing pioneering scholarly works on African Diasporan themes, Diouf has written black history children’s books, curated gallery and online exhibitions, lectured widely on the global black experience, and appeared as an expert in documentary films."<ref>''Callaloo'', Fall 2016</ref>


Diouf is the author of ''Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons'' (New York University Press, 2014). It is the first book to detail the experience of the men, women, and children who fled slavery and found refuge in the woods and swamps of the United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian [[Eric Foner]] noted that ''Slavery's Exiles'' is "an important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance". and interviewed Diouf for BookTV.
Her book ''Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America'' (Oxford University Press, 2007) is the first to tell the story, in minute details, of the 110 young Africans from Benin and Nigeria, who were brought in July 1860 to Alabama on the last recorded slave ship to the United States. This widely acclaimed book received the [[Wesley Logan Prize]] of the American Historical Association and the [https://www.alabamahistory.net/james-f-sulzby-book-award James Sulzby Award] of the Alabama Historical Association. It was a finalist for the [[Hurston/Wright Legacy Award]]. The discovery, in 2019, of the wreck of the ''Clotilda'' in Mobile has brought international attention to this unique story.<ref>Last American Slave Ship Is Discovered in Alabama, ''National Geographic'', May 2019</ref><ref>[https://therealnews.com/stories/last-slave-ship-found-on-alabama-coast-validates-descendants-stories Last Slave Ship Found on Alabama Coast]</ref>


''Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas'' (New York University Press, 1998), the first book on the topic, has been praised for its detailed, well-written, and well-researched study of West African Muslims in 20 colonies/countries of the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} Through an abundance of primary sources, Diouf explores the lives of individuals and communities focusing on expressions of faith, continued adherence to Islam, material culture, literacy, resistance, revolts, influence on non-Muslim communities and the Muslims' legacy. A 15th-anniversary, expanded, illustrated and updated edition was published in 2013.
Diouf is the author of ''Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons'' (New York University Press, 2014). It is the first book to detail the experience of the men, women, and children who fled slavery and found refuge in the woods and swamps of the United States. Pulitzer Prize winning historian [[Eric Foner|Eric%20Foner Eric Foner]] , noted that ''Slavery's Exiles'' is "an important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance" and interviewed Diouf for [https://www.c-span.org/video/?318368-1/sylviane-diouf-slaverys-exiles BookTV].


Diouf gave the keynote address to the [[United Nations General Assembly]] on March 25, 2015, during the commemoration of the [[International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade]]. She is the editor of the critically acclaimed ''Fighting the Slave trade: West African Strategies'' (Ohio University Press, 2003), the first book to study African resistance to the slave trade. She co-edited ''Black Power 50'' and''In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience'' (National Geographic, 2005).
''Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas'' (New York University Press, 1998), the first book on the topic and now a classic, has been praised for its detailed, well-written, and well-researched study of West African Muslims in 20 colonies/countries of the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Through an abundance of primary sources, Diouf explores the lives of individuals and communities focusing on expressions of faith, continued adherence to Islam, material culture, literacy, resistance, revolts, influence on non-Muslim communities and the Muslims' legacy. A 15th-anniversary, expanded, illustrated and updated edition was published in 2013.


She has written several books on African history and on slavery for younger readers. She received the 2001 Africana Book Award for Older Readers from the [[African Studies Association]] for her book ''Kings and Queens of West Africa'', part of a four-book series (Scholastic, 2000). She authored a book on the lives of children enslaved in the United States, ''Growing Up in Slavery'' (Lerner Publishing Group, 2001); and her fiction book ''Bintou’s Braids'' (Chronicle Books, 2001) has been published in the US, France, and Brazil.
Diouf gave the keynote address to the United Nations General Assembly on March 25, 2015, during the commemoration of the [[International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade]]. She is the editor of the critically acclaimed ''Fighting the Slave trade: West African Strategies'' (Ohio University Press, 2003), the first book to study African resistance to the slave trade. She co-edited ''Black Power 50'' and''In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience'' (National Geographic, 2005).


Diouf has appeared on [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] in the documentaries ''This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys'', ''[[Prince Among Slaves (film)|Prince Among Slaves]]'', Cimarronaje en Panama, The Neo African Americans and History Detectives. She has lectured internationally and was the inaugural Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the [[Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]] of The New York Public Library.
She has written several books on African history and on slavery for younger readers. She received the 2001 Africana Book Award for Older Readers from the [[African Studies Association]] for her book ''Kings and Queens of West Africa'', part of a four-book series (Scholastic, 2000). She authored a book on the lives of children enslaved in the United States, ''Growing Up in Slavery'' (Lerner Publishing Group, 2001); and her fiction book ''Bintou’s Braids'' (Chronicle Books, 2001) has been published in the USA, France, and Brazil.

Diouf has appeared on [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] in the documentaries ''[https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/ This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys]'', ''[[Prince Among Slaves (film)|Prince Among Slaves]]'', [https://www.cimarronaje.com/ Cimarronaje en Panama], [https://neoafricanamericans.wordpress.com/ The Neo African Americans] and History Detectives. She has lectured internationally and was the inaugural Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the [[Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]] of The New York Public Library.


==Books==
==Books==
*''[https://thenewpress.com/books/black-power-50 Black Power 50]'', 2016, The New Press
*''Black Power 50'', 2016, The New Press
*''[https://nyupress.org/9780814724378/slaverys-exiles/ Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons]'', 2014, New York University Press
*''Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons'', 2014, New York University Press
*''[https://nyupress.org/9781479847112/servants-of-allah/ Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas]'', 15th anniversary edition, 2013, New York University Press
*''Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas'', 15th anniversary edition, 2013, New York University Press
*''[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dreams-of-africa-in-alabama-9780195382938?cc=us&lang=en& Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America]'', 2007, Oxford University Press
*''Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America'', 2007, Oxford University Press
*''[https://www.amazon.com/Motion-African-American-Migration-Experience/dp/0792273850 In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience]'', 2005, National Geographic Society
*''In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience'', 2005, National Geographic Society
*''[https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Fighting+the+Slave+Trade Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies]'', 2003, Ohio University Press
*''Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies'', 2003, Ohio University Press
*''Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas'', 1998, New York University Press
*''Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas'', 1998, New York University Press
*''[https://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/bintou-s-braids.html Bintou's Braids]'', 2001, Chronicle Books. French and Brazilian editions.
*''Bintou's Braids'', 2001, Chronicle Books. French and Brazilian editions.
*''Growing Up in Slavery'', 2001, Lerner Publishing Group
*''Growing Up in Slavery'', 2001, Lerner Publishing Group
*''[https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Queens-Africa-Watts-Library/dp/0531203751 Kings and Queens of Africa]'', 2000, Scholastic
*''Kings and Queens of Africa'', 2000, Scholastic


==Articles and Chapters in Edited Books==
==Articles and chapters in edited books==
* From the Holds of the Clotilda to African Town, ''[https://en.unesco.org/courier/2019-4/holds-clotilda-africatown The Unesco Courier]'', Fall 2019
* From the Holds of the Clotilda to African Town, ''The Unesco Courier'', Fall 2019


*What Islam Gave the Blues, ''[https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/ Renovatio]'', Spring 2019
*What Islam Gave the Blues, ''Renovatio'', Spring 2019


*Borderland Maroons in ''[https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813056036 Fugitive Slaves and Places of Freedom in North America]'', D. A. Pargas, ed. University Press of Florida Press, 2018.
*Borderland Maroons in ''Fugitive Slaves and Places of Freedom in North America'', D. A. Pargas, ed. University Press of Florida Press, 2018.


*'‘God Does Not Allow Kings to Enslave Their People’ ”: Islamic Reformists and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”', in ''[https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4789.htm A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said]'', Ala Alryyes, ed. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011
*'‘God Does Not Allow Kings to Enslave Their People’ ”: Islamic Reformists and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”', in ''A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said'', Ala Alryyes, ed. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011


*African Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in ''200 Years Later… Commemorating the 200 year anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade'' Berlin: Werstatt Der Kulturen, 2008
*African Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in ''200 Years Later… Commemorating the 200 year anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade'' Berlin: Werstatt Der Kulturen, 2008


*Muslims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, ''Seasons'', Spring-Summer 2005
*Muslims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, ''Seasons'', Spring–Summer 2005


*The West African Paradox, in ''[http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/372214053.pdf Muslims' Place in the American Public Square: Hopes, Fears, and Aspirations],'' Zahid Bukhari, ed. Altamira Press, 2004
*The West African Paradox, in ''Muslims' Place in the American Public Square: Hopes, Fears, and Aspirations,'' Zahid Bukhari, ed. Altamira Press, 2004


*African Muslims in Bondage: Realities, Memories, and Legacies, in ''[https://all-souls.org/pub/monuments-of-the-black-atlantic-slavery-and-memory/ Monuments of the Black Atlantic: History, Memory and Politics]'', Maria Diedrich, Joanne M. Braxton, eds. Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 2004
*African Muslims in Bondage: Realities, Memories, and Legacies, in ''Monuments of the Black Atlantic: History, Memory and Politics'', Maria Diedrich, Joanne M. Braxton, eds. Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 2004


*Manding in the Americas, in ''[https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/trans-atlantic-dimensions-of-ethnicity-in-the-african-diaspora-9780826449078/ Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora]'', Paul E. Lovejoy and David Trotman, eds. London: Continuum, 2003
*Manding in the Americas, in ''Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora'', Paul E. Lovejoy and David Trotman, eds. London: Continuum, 2003


*Invisible Muslims: The Sahelians in France, in ''[https://rowman.com/isbn/9780759102187/muslim-minorities-in-the-west-visible-and-invisible Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible]'', Yvonne Haddad and Jane Smith, eds. Altamira Press, 2002
*Invisible Muslims: The Sahelians in France, in ''Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible'', Yvonne Haddad and Jane Smith, eds. Altamira Press, 2002


*American Slaves Who Were Readers and Writers, ''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'', Summer 1999
*American Slaves Who Were Readers and Writers, ''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'', Summer 1999


*[https://academic.oup.com/jis/article-abstract/10/1/22/712435?redirectedFrom=fulltext Sadaqah Among African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas], ''The Journal of Islamic Studies'', Oxford University Press, 1999
*Sadaqah Among African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, ''The Journal of Islamic Studies'', Oxford University Press, 1999


*Senegalais de New York: Minorite Modele? ''Black Renaissance'', Summer-Fall 1997
*Senegalese in New York: A Model Minority? ''Black Renaissance'', no. 2, Summer–Fall 1997


==Exhibitions==
==Exhibitions==
*[https://blacknewyorkers-nypl.org/ Black New Yorkers 1613-2010]
*Black New Yorkers 1613-2010
*Black Power!

*Power In Print
*[https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/black-power Black Power!]
*Ready For the Revolution: Education, Arts, and Aesthetics of the Black Power Movement

*The Black Power Movement: The Legacy
*[https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/power-print Power In Print]
*Revisiting Nat Turner

*Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers (traveled to 20 countries)
*[https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/ready-for-the-revolution/tgIircaDvDqQLg Ready For the Revolution: Education, Arts, and Aesthetics of the Black Power Movement]
*The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World

*Africana Age: African and African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century
*[https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/schomburg-center-for-research-in-black-culture The Black Power Movement: The Legacy]

* [http://www.lapiduscenter.org/revisiting-rebellion-nat-turner-in-the-american-imagination/ Revisiting Nat Turner]

*[https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/01/31/africans-india-slaves-generals-and-rulers Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers] (traveled to 20 countries)

*[http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africansindianocean/ The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World]

*[http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/index2.html Africana Age: African and African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century]

*African Americans and American Politics
*African Americans and American Politics
*The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Forgotten Story

*In Motion: The African American Migration Experience
*[http://abolition.nypl.org/home/ The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Forgotten Story]

*[http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm?site=html In Motion: The African American Migration Experience]


==Awards==
==Awards==


*2009 George Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association for Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Oxford University Press).
*2009 George Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association for Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Oxford University Press).

*2009 Rosa Parks Award for Social Justice
*2009 Rosa Parks Award for Social Justice

*2008 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association for Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
*2008 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association for Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

*2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, finalist, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
*2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, finalist, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

*2008 Pen and Brush Lifetime Achievement Award
*2008 Pen and Brush Lifetime Achievement Award

*2006 Dr. Betty Shabbazz Lifetime Achievement Award
*2006 Dr. Betty Shabbazz Lifetime Achievement Award

*2003 Comité des Mamans (France) Winner, Bintou Quatre Choux
*2003 Comité des Mamans (France) Winner, Bintou Quatre Choux

* 2001 African Studies Association, Children Africana Book Award for Older Readers: Kings and Queens of West Africa
* 2001 African Studies Association, Children Africana Book Award for Older Readers: Kings and Queens of West Africa

* 1999 Choice, Outstanding Academic Book for Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
* 1999 Choice, Outstanding Academic Book for Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

*1999 Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, Outstanding Books Award for Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas.
*1999 Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, Outstanding Books Award for Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas.


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Sylviane Anna Diouf is a historian and curator of the African diaspora. She is a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Her contribution as a social historian, she stressed, "May be the uncovering of essential stories and topics that were overlooked or negated, but which actually offer new insights into the experience of the African Diaspora. A scholar said my work re-shapes and re-directs our understanding of this history; it shifts our attention, corrects the historical record, and reveals hidden and forgotten voices."[1]

Early life and education

[edit]

Diouf was born in France to a Senegalese physicist and a French school principal. She is a descendant of Khaly Amar Fall (1555-1638), the founder (in 1603) of Pir, the Senegalese institute of higher Islamic studies.[2] Historical figures such as Sulayman Bal and Abdel Kader Kane who blocked the slave trade on the Senegal River in the 18th century studied at Pir. Many Islamic reformists and later opponents of colonization were also students there and in 1870 the French burned down the school. But it was rebuilt and still exists.[3] Diouf studied at Université Denis Diderot in Paris and has lived and traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. She lives in New York.

Academic work

[edit]

In addition to publishing pioneering scholarly works on African Diasporan themes, Diouf has written black history children's books, curated gallery and online exhibitions, lectured widely on the global black experience, and appeared as an expert in documentary films."[4]

Her book Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Oxford University Press, 2007) is the first to tell the story, in minute details, of the 110 young Africans from Benin and Nigeria, who were brought in July 1860 to Alabama on the last recorded slave ship to the United States. It received the Wesley Logan Prize of the American Historical Association and the James Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association. It was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The discovery, in 2019, of the wreck of the Clotilda in Mobile has brought international attention to this story.[5][6]

Diouf is the author of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (New York University Press, 2014). It is the first book to detail the experience of the men, women, and children who fled slavery and found refuge in the woods and swamps of the United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner noted that Slavery's Exiles is "an important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance". and interviewed Diouf for BookTV.

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (New York University Press, 1998), the first book on the topic, has been praised for its detailed, well-written, and well-researched study of West African Muslims in 20 colonies/countries of the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries.[citation needed] Through an abundance of primary sources, Diouf explores the lives of individuals and communities focusing on expressions of faith, continued adherence to Islam, material culture, literacy, resistance, revolts, influence on non-Muslim communities and the Muslims' legacy. A 15th-anniversary, expanded, illustrated and updated edition was published in 2013.

Diouf gave the keynote address to the United Nations General Assembly on March 25, 2015, during the commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She is the editor of the critically acclaimed Fighting the Slave trade: West African Strategies (Ohio University Press, 2003), the first book to study African resistance to the slave trade. She co-edited Black Power 50 andIn Motion: The African-American Migration Experience (National Geographic, 2005).

She has written several books on African history and on slavery for younger readers. She received the 2001 Africana Book Award for Older Readers from the African Studies Association for her book Kings and Queens of West Africa, part of a four-book series (Scholastic, 2000). She authored a book on the lives of children enslaved in the United States, Growing Up in Slavery (Lerner Publishing Group, 2001); and her fiction book Bintou’s Braids (Chronicle Books, 2001) has been published in the US, France, and Brazil.

Diouf has appeared on PBS in the documentaries This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys, Prince Among Slaves, Cimarronaje en Panama, The Neo African Americans and History Detectives. She has lectured internationally and was the inaugural Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library.

Books

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  • Black Power 50, 2016, The New Press
  • Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons, 2014, New York University Press
  • Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th anniversary edition, 2013, New York University Press
  • Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, 2007, Oxford University Press
  • In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, 2005, National Geographic Society
  • Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies, 2003, Ohio University Press
  • Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 1998, New York University Press
  • Bintou's Braids, 2001, Chronicle Books. French and Brazilian editions.
  • Growing Up in Slavery, 2001, Lerner Publishing Group
  • Kings and Queens of Africa, 2000, Scholastic

Articles and chapters in edited books

[edit]
  • From the Holds of the Clotilda to African Town, The Unesco Courier, Fall 2019
  • What Islam Gave the Blues, Renovatio, Spring 2019
  • Borderland Maroons in Fugitive Slaves and Places of Freedom in North America, D. A. Pargas, ed. University Press of Florida Press, 2018.
  • '‘God Does Not Allow Kings to Enslave Their People’ ”: Islamic Reformists and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”', in A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said, Ala Alryyes, ed. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011
  • African Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in 200 Years Later… Commemorating the 200 year anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Berlin: Werstatt Der Kulturen, 2008
  • Muslims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Seasons, Spring–Summer 2005
  • The West African Paradox, in Muslims' Place in the American Public Square: Hopes, Fears, and Aspirations, Zahid Bukhari, ed. Altamira Press, 2004
  • African Muslims in Bondage: Realities, Memories, and Legacies, in Monuments of the Black Atlantic: History, Memory and Politics, Maria Diedrich, Joanne M. Braxton, eds. Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 2004
  • Manding in the Americas, in Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora, Paul E. Lovejoy and David Trotman, eds. London: Continuum, 2003
  • Invisible Muslims: The Sahelians in France, in Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible, Yvonne Haddad and Jane Smith, eds. Altamira Press, 2002
  • American Slaves Who Were Readers and Writers, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Summer 1999
  • Sadaqah Among African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, The Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford University Press, 1999
  • Senegalese in New York: A Model Minority? Black Renaissance, no. 2, Summer–Fall 1997

Exhibitions

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  • Black New Yorkers 1613-2010
  • Black Power!
  • Power In Print
  • Ready For the Revolution: Education, Arts, and Aesthetics of the Black Power Movement
  • The Black Power Movement: The Legacy
  • Revisiting Nat Turner
  • Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers (traveled to 20 countries)
  • The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
  • Africana Age: African and African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century
  • African Americans and American Politics
  • The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Forgotten Story
  • In Motion: The African American Migration Experience

Awards

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  • 2009 George Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association for Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Oxford University Press).
  • 2009 Rosa Parks Award for Social Justice
  • 2008 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association for Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
  • 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, finalist, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
  • 2008 Pen and Brush Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2006 Dr. Betty Shabbazz Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2003 Comité des Mamans (France) Winner, Bintou Quatre Choux
  • 2001 African Studies Association, Children Africana Book Award for Older Readers: Kings and Queens of West Africa
  • 1999 Choice, Outstanding Academic Book for Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
  • 1999 Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, Outstanding Books Award for Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas.

References

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  1. ^ Callaloo, Fall 2016
  2. ^ sylvianediouf.com
  3. ^ Demba Lamine Diouf, Khally Amar Fall, fondateur de l'université de Pire, Centre d'étude des civilisations, 1988
  4. ^ Callaloo, Fall 2016
  5. ^ Last American Slave Ship Is Discovered in Alabama, National Geographic, May 2019
  6. ^ Last Slave Ship Found on Alabama Coast
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