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From: shihan desilva <shihan.desi...@sas.ac.uk>
Date: 1 December 2011 15:12
Subject: FW: Invitation to Canning House, Belgrave Square:  Friday 16
December at 6.30 pm
To: shihan desilva <shihan.desi...@sas.ac.uk>

Talk: "From Invisibility to Visibility: Africans in Portuguese Space"

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"From Invisibility to Visibility: Africans in Portuguese Space", by
Shihan de Silva, author of  'African Identity in Asia' and 'The
Portuguese in the East'

African movement to Asia has gone on for centuries and many migrants
have assimilated with the local populations. Within historical
documents, Africans become conspicuous through their  military role.
Moreover, there are Afro-Asian communities today, separated by vast
distances and hidden in the villages and forests of Asia.

Through their vibrant forms of music and lyrics still in Portuguese,
they emerge from obscurity. Concentrating on Africans who moved within
Portuguese space in India, Sri Lanka, Macau, Timor, this presentation
will highlight the way in which the migratory process took place and
affected their lives.


Dr Shihan de Silva is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth
Studies (University of London) and a member of the UNESCO
International Scientific Committee (Paris)

Friday 16th December 2011 | Canning House, 2 Belgrave Square, London
SW1 | 18.30-19.30

|Free event|



Further details shihan.desi...@sas.ac.uk



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