Glenford Howe and Tara Innis (Editors)

The relationship between Africa and the Caribbean is a story of tides, displacement, return, solidarity and cultural circulation. These regions, separated by the Atlantic Ocean, linked through histories of slavery, colonialism and liberation, have consistently interacted across centuries.

This book explores the West Indian/ Caribbean footprint in Africa through historical, political, medical, legal, cultural, intellectual, and trade among others – arguing that these exchanges are best understood as a set of reciprocal tides of exchange. These ‘tides’ embody the complexities of diaspora: a people both shaped by Africa and later returning to shape Africa.

Contributors to this volume feature specialist historians, anthropologists, statesmen, development experts, etc. drawn from academies in the Caribbean, Europe, North America and from countries across the African continent, many located in the diaspora, exemplifying the very essence of the reciprocal exchange that this work aims to highlight.

Glenford Howe is a senior researcher and policy specialist at The UWI Global

Campus. He is internationally recognised for his work in Caribbean development,

higher education and Africa/Caribbean co-operation.

Tara Innis is a Caribbean Historian and serves as Deputy Dean (Planning) in the

Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

Shelene Gomes is a sociocultural anthropologist at The UWI St Augustine Campus

in Trinidad, and an honorary research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.