Dr. Nemata Blyden
Nemata Blyden is Armstead L. Robinson Professor of 19th Century African American History at the Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia. She specializes in African American/African/African Diaspora history.
Education
Yale University
History PhD, MPhil
Mount Holyoke College
Bachelor of Arts in History and International Relations
SELECTED Publications
Between Africa and America: Recalibrating Black Americans' Relationship to the Diaspora with Jeannette Eileen Jones, in Perspectives on History,, Volume 58, Issue 6, Aug 20, 2020
“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, pp. 355-370.
(Re) envisioning the African Diaspora: Historical Memory and Cross-fertilization in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone in Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone, Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid (eds), Lexington Books, 2013
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
N. Blyden and F. Akiwumi, A Perspective of the African Diaspora in the United States in John W. Frazier, Joe T. Darden, Norah F. Henry (eds), The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century (Global Academic Publishing, 2009)
"The Search for Anna Erskine: African American Women in Nineteenth Century Liberia" in Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas (Ohio University Press, 2002);
"Edward Jones: An African American in Sierra Leone" in Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World (Garland Publishing, Inc. 1999)