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The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol, 24, No. 3, April 2019 22
The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol, 24, No. 3, April 2019 Exhibition at Pitt Looked at African Diaspora from Another Perspective Donoivan Harrell, Staff Writer University Times, the University of Pittsburgh Note: This article is reprinted with permission from University Times, a Publication of the University of Pittsburgh. The African diaspora is expansive, reaching the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. But a new University Art Gallery exhibition shows the lives and contributions of members of the African diaspora that are often overlooked: Africans in India. During the opening reception of “Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers” on Feb. 15, the Pitt community heard presentations from Dr. Kenneth X. Robbins, Omar H. Ali and Jazmin Graves, renowned scholars on contributions of elite East Africans in India. Robbins, the co-curator of the exhibition along with Sylviane A. Diouf, presented an overview of these contributions. He is a psychiatrist, collector, archivist and scholar who specializes in Indian rulers and minority groups. Ali is the dean of the Lloyd International Honors College and professor of comparative African diasporic history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He’s also the author of “Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean” (2016, Oxford University Press). Ambar is one of the African rulers featured in the exhibit. And finally, Jasmine Graves, is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and fellow at the American Institute of Indian Studies. East Africans, according to the p r e s e n t e r s , became generals, admirals, architects, rulers and more. Many of them made their way to these posi- 23
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