(Revised & Expanded Edition – 1988) 256 pages $15.00 | 1985
This volume, co-edited with Runako Rashidi, is divided into five sections. The first discusses the peopling of Asia from Africa and identifies African people with Asia’s first hominid as well as modern human populations. The second section demonstrates the African elements underlying major early civilizations. in Asia, an overview that includes India, Iraq and Iran, Phoenicia, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula, China, Japan and Cambodia. The third section discusses ‘ the African origin of the great religions of Asia — Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. The fourth section focuses on the historical and anthropological relationship between African people and Asia’s Indo-European, Mongoloid and Semitic populations. The final section deals with African bondage in Asia and provides a fascinating glimpse of the DALIT the Black Untouchables of India. by V.T. Rajshekar. Who are the Blacks of Asia? What have they done? What are they doing now? This volume sacks to answer these questions and to reunite a family too long separated.
