Trading on a thalassic network: African migrations across the Indian Ocean
First published: 05 March 2007
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2451.2006.00613.x
Citations: 3
Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya is a Research Associate of King’s College, University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. She has a Ph.D. in linguistics (Westminster), and two degrees from the University of London: an M.Sc. in finance and a B.Sc. Honours in economics. She is the author of three books: Tagus to Taprobane, An anthology of Indo-Portuguese verse and Indo-Portuguese of Ceylon. She co-edited (with Professor Richard Pankhurst) The African diaspora in the Indian Ocean. She is the Coordinator of the African diaspora in Asia, a project associated with the UNESCO slave route project.
Email: devika.de_silva@kcl.ac.uk
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