Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University

Expert Bio

Nemata Blyden is an Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University. A historian of Africa and the African Diaspora she specializes in the history of Africa and the African Diaspora. Dr. Blyden received a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MPhil and PhD from Yale University. She is the author of West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: A diaspora in reverse, (University of Rochester Press, 2000)  “This na true story of our history”: South Carolina in Sierra Leone's historical memory” in Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2015,  Relationships among Blacks in the Diaspora: African and Caribbean Immigrants and American-Born Blacks in Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands, editors John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang, and Thomas Owusu, 2012