Toby Green is a writer and historian of West Africa. He has written numerous books, and his work has been translated into 12 languages. He has contributed to journals including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the London Review of Books, and Prospect, and his previous novel Imaginary Crimes was published by Mkuki na Nyota in 2013. He has given public lectures on aspects of West African history in Brazil, France, Portugal, Senegal, The Gambia, and the USA; and has chaired public events with figures including the Bissau-Guinean musician Manecas Costa, the Mozambican novelist Luís Bernardo Honwana, and the Senegalese historian Boubacar Barry. He is Lecturer in Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College London.
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Part I. The Development of an Atlantic Creole Culture in Western Africa, c.1300 1500: 1. Culture, trade, and diaspora in pre-Atlantic West Africa; 2. The formation of early Atlantic societies in Senegambia and Upper Guinea; 3. The settlement of Cabo Verde and early signs of Creolization in Western Africa; 4. The new Christian diaspora in Cabo Verde and the rise of a Creole culture in Western Africa; 5. The new Christian/Kassanké alliance and the consolidation of Creolization; Part II. Creolization and Slavery: Western Africa and the Pan-Atlantic, c.1492 1589: 6. The early trans-Atlantic slave trade from Western Africa; 7. Trading ideas and trading people: the boom in the contraband trade from Western Africa, c.1550 80; 8. Cycles of war and trade in the African Atlantic, c.1550 80; 9. Creole societies and the pan-Atlantic in late sixteenth-century Western Africa and America; Part III. Conclusion: 10. Lineages, societies, and the slave trade in Western Africa to 1589.
Part I. The Development of an Atlantic Creole Culture in Western Africa, c.1300 1500: 1. Culture, trade, and diaspora in pre-Atlantic West Africa; 2. The formation of early Atlantic societies in Senegambia and Upper Guinea; 3. The settlement of Cabo Verde and early signs of Creolization in Western Africa; 4. The new Christian diaspora in Cabo Verde and the rise of a Creole culture in Western Africa; 5. The new Christian/Kassanké alliance and the consolidation of Creolization; Part II. Creolization and Slavery: Western Africa and the Pan-Atlantic, c.1492 1589: 6. The early trans-Atlantic slave trade from Western Africa; 7. Trading ideas and trading people: the boom in the contraband trade from Western Africa, c.1550 80; 8. Cycles of war and trade in the African Atlantic, c.1550 80; 9. Creole societies and the pan-Atlantic in late sixteenth-century Western Africa and America; Part III. Conclusion: 10. Lineages, societies, and the slave trade in Western Africa to 1589.
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