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Why is Africa important to the rest of the world?

President Barack Obama recently declared that the future stability of the world depends on African nations’ prosperity and self-reliance. Reinforcing this is Toyin Falola, leading authority in African studies, who stated that “scholars and policy makers have the obligation to show Africa and the world how to succeed.” This is why African studies continues to grow as a critical field...

Cambria Press Book Review: Contemporary Literature of Africa is “remarkably thorough, sophisticated, and precise”

Cambria Press congratulates Wumi Raji on the excellent review of his book, Contemporary Literature of Africa, by Re-Markings, which praises the book for being “remarkably thorough, sophisticated, and precise.” It also states that “this collection will be useful to readers starting with those who have a general interest in the subject to serious scholars … this book will serve as...

Cambria Press New African Studies Series by Toyin Falola (UT Austin) and Moses Ochonu (Vanderbilt University)

Cambria Press is proud to announce a new series which will be led by Toyin Falola, the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin , and Moses Ochonu, Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. The Cambria African Studies Series will will feature high-quality, innovative monographs...

Cambria Press New Book for African studies, Latin American studies, slavery studies, and women’s studies

At the 2014 LASA congress last month, there was much excitement not only for Howard University history professor Ana Lucia Araujo’s two highly praised books, Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade, but also her series, Slavery: Past and Present, because the inaugural title Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women’s...

“A house divided against itself cannot stand. ” – Abraham Lincoln

  Although declared 156  years ago, Abraham Lincoln‘s words still resonate today–some would say, more than ever. This famous House Divided speech was made by Abraham Lincoln, who was unafraid to oppose slavery in spite of its wide acceptance and immense pressure to change his position. This resolute stance eventually led to the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which laid the...

Brazil’s African Soul (BBC) – The impact of the slave trade continues

A recent BBC report “Brazil’s African Soul” on June 4 states that “African culture brought over during the slave trade still influences modern Salvador in myriad ways, from unique art forms to ongoing social struggles.” This is not surprising at all; as Ana Lucia Araujo pointed out in her book Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic...

Cambria Press Book Review: Africans in China “an outstanding resource not only for cultural contact studies but also for sociology, linguistics and anthropology”!

Cambria Press congratulates Adams Bodomo on the recent review of Africans in China by Sociolinguistic Studies in which “the reader is confronted with the first book-length description and analysis of African migrants into China,” Africans in China is praised because “its theoretical and methodological novelty among the studies about Africa and China places it as an outstanding resource not only for...

#AHA2014 annual meeting – Slavery history expert Ana Lucia Araujo at multiple sessions

Even though Cambria Press author and Slavery: Past and Present book series general editor Ana Lucia Araujo organized multiple slavery sessions at the #2014AHA annual meeting and was extremely busy, it was wonderful of her to make the time to come to the Cambria Press booth especially because her books, Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South...

Cambria Press will be at the American Historical Association in Washington D.C. – Visit booth 206!

Cambria Press will be at the American Historical Association in Washington D.C. Visit the Cambria Press booth (206) in the exhibit hall to browse books such as: Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic Public by Ana Lucia Araujo (“An important and provocative work. No other study so thoroughly chronicles the fraught and ambiguous history of...

Cambria Press author and series editor Ana Lucia Araujo interviewed for Latino Americans spotlight!

Cambria Press author and series editor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) was interviewed for a spotlight segment on Latino Americans. In the interview, Dr. Araujo commented on the similarities between her native Brazil and the United States, in particular the histories of slavery in both countries which has resulted in legacies of racism and racial inequality. An expert on slavery,...

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