African Saga is a must read on the African Diaspora in the Americas. Nina S. de Friedemann writes with definitive ethnographic and ethnohistorical detail about the cultural origins in Africa, forced labor in the Americas, and the role of African descent peoples in contemporary society. Although she wrote seventeen books, this is her most comprehensive statement about the African experience in Latin America.
She was one of the creators of the field of Afro-Colombian studies and arguably the most important researcher of her time on the subject. In recognition of her scholarship and writing, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and named Latin American Coordinator for the UNESCO Project on the Slave Route among other honors.
Comprehensive review of Afro-Colombian history. At the same time, powerful tool to combat racism due to the way it highlights the contributions made by African captives and their descendants to the building of their nation. A book committed to the future of Africanness in the Americas, due to the political and ethical framework which also guided the life of its author, Nina S. de Friedemann.
--Jaime Arocha,
Professor of Anthropology
National University of Colombia
The late Nina Friedemann introduced a radical but reasonable afrocentrism into the literature on Afro-Colombian people by drawing on her extensive and impressive ethnography synergized with painstaking history, ethnohistory, narrative historicity and even archaeology of Africa and the Americas...Required reading for all students and scholars of the African Diaspora.
--Norman Whitten
Professor of Anthropology
University of Illinois
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