Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-187) and index.

Identifying Africans in Asia : what's in a name? / Shihan de Silva J ayasuriya -- The Afro-Asian diaspora : myth or reality? / Gwyn Campbell -- The African slave trade to Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands / Robe rt O. Collins -- The Makran-Baluch-African network in Zanzibar and East -Africa during the XIX century / Beatrice Nicolini -- Somali migration to Yemen from the 19th to the 21st centuries / Leila Ingrams & Richard Panhurst -- Nineteenth century European references to the African diasp ora in the Arabian peninsula / Clifford Pereira -- Migrant and the Mald ives : African connections / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The African native in Indiaspora / Jeanette Pinto -- Migrants and mercenaries : Sri Lanka's hidden Africans / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya.