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The primary concern of this book is the repatriation pattern in the former slave communities of Freretown and Rabai, located on the East Coast of Kenya. These communities were established by Africans liberated from slavery in Arabia, India, East Africa itself, and some freed from slave dhows in the Indian Ocean and by other Africans who returned from the diaspora and became repatriates. This study attempts to reconstruct the history of the origin and development of the communities of Freretown and Rabai in Kenya, to assess the role of those settler communities as agents of social and cultural change, and to evaluate their influence on the history of Kenya

When I was asked to share some of my reflections on the evolution of African Diaspora studies in the United States, I recalled that a colleague and I mused about the appearance of recent advertisements in scholarly journals for African Diaspora specialists. We also observed that several colleges and universities have courses with African Diaspora in the title. Indeed, Diaspora as a description of the dispersion and settlement of Africans abroad is fairly common in academic parlance today and increasingly so in popular discussions; however, such has not always been the case.