Penny von Eschen
A masterful survey that skillfully interweaves multiple themes across six centuries and several continents in crisp and lucid prose. The African Diaspora is a superb book that fills a void in the literature as well as a pressing need in the classroom.
Penny von Eschen, University of Michigan, editor of Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History
Mamadou Diouf
A major achievement, an excellent book for both graduate and undergraduate students of African and African diaspora studies.
Michael Gomez
The African Diaspora reflects Patrick Manning's many years of scholarly engagement and achievement and succeeds in creating a paradigmatic shift that bridges conceptual distances between Africa and its diaspora, while also demonstrating the substantive quality of that shift. Thoroughly researched and lucidly written, this study is a major contribution to the literature on black experience throughout the world, providing a convincing argument for relocating Africa and its peoples from the periphery to the center of global history.
Michael Gomez, New York University
Mamadou Diouf
A major achievement, an excellent book for both graduate and undergraduate students of African and African diaspora studies.
Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University
Marcus Rediker
Only Patrick Manninga leading scholar in both African and world historycould have written this magnificent book. Anyone who wishes to understand the history of global Africa will be grateful that he did.
Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History