Providing a history of black people outside Africa, this book describes the societies from which Africans were seized for slavery, their long struggle for freedom, and their experience today in different countries, from Britain and America to Jamaica, Haiti and Brazil. It sets out to show how the diaspora has enriched world culture, in music, language and literature, the visual arts, sport and religion. The author left South Africa in 1960 for political exile in Britain, where he convened the 1964 International Conference of Economic Sanctions against South Africa.
- ISBN10 0571178022
- ISBN13 9780571178025
- Publish Date 2 October 1996 (first published 1 August 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 512
- Language English