Dr. Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian. Her new book Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America won the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, the Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association, and the 2nd prize of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her book Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas was named Outstanding Academic Book. She edited Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies that explores in a detailed manner what Africans did to protect and defend themselves from the slave trade and to attack it. She is the author of a four book series on African kings and queens, which was awarded the Children Africana award given by the African Studies Association; of Growing Up in Slavery, a book on children enslaved in the United States; and of Bintou’s Braids, an award-winning fiction book published in the United States, Brazil, and France. Dr. Diouf was an on-camera expert for the PBS documentaries This Far by Faith and Prince Among Slaves and has also appeared on PBS History Detectives. She has taught at Libreville University and New York University and is a Curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Director of the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Institute.
