Doha: Dr Michael A Gomez who is a professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, recently was hosted by Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) where he held a lecture titled The African Experience in the Americas: Possible Implications for the Indian Ocean.
A cultural and social historian of both Africa and its diaspora, Dr Gomez in his lecture presented on the subject of relationship between African diaspora as it has developed in the Americas. The lecture addressed African diasporic streams, mostly concentrating on the one that is most widely studied today and is associated with the Atlantic trade in African slaves. This trade, which began in earnest in the 15th century, may have delivered as many as 200,000 Africans to various European societies and 11 to 12 million to the Americas over time. The Peninsula
