Nathan Riley Carpenter directs the Center for Global Education at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA. Benjamin N. Lawrance is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and Editor-in-Chief of the African Studies Review. He is the author of Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling.

• CONTENTSForeword: Holger Bernt HansenAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, Reconstructing the Archive of Africans in Exile Part One: The Legal Worlds of Exile1. "Wayward Humours" and "Perverse Disputings" / Ruma Chopra2. From Bandits to Political Prisoners: Detention and Deportation on the Sierra Leone Frontier / Trina Leah Hogg3. The Path of Extinction: The Double Exile of Alfa Yaya and the Penal Regime in French Colonial Africa / Nathan Riley Carpenter4. Reforming State Violence in French West Africa: Relegation in the Epoch of Decolonization / Marie Rodet and Romain Tiquet5. A Kingdom in Check: Exile as a Strategy in the Sanwi Kingdom, C / Thaïs Gendry6. "As if I were in Prison" / Brett ShadlePart Two: Geographies of Exile7. In the City of Waiting: Education and Mozambican Liberation Exiles in Dar es Salaam, 1960-1975 / Joanna T. Tague8. Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau Revolution in Exile: Women and the Salvation of the Nationalist Organization in Guinea, 1959-1962 / Aliou Ly9. Brothers in the Bush: Exile, Refuge, and Citizenship on the Ghana-Togo Border, 1958-1966 / Kate Skinner10. A Cold War Geography: South African Anti-Apartheid Refuge and Exile in London, 1945-94 / Susan Dabney Pennybacker11. The French Trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith TerrettaPart Three: Remembering and Performing Exile12. Forced Labor and Migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet13. Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the Poetics of Exile / Sana Camara14. The Legacy of Exile: Terrorism in and outside Africa from Osama bin Laden to Al-Shabaab / Kris Inman15. Reconstructing Slavery in Ohioan Exile: Mauritanian Refugees in the United States / E. Ann McDougall16. A Nation Abroad: Desire and Authenticity in Togolese Political Dissidence / Benjamin N. LawranceEpilogue: From Exile with Love / Baba Galleh JallowAfterword: Worlds and Words of Migration: Exile in African History / Emily S. BurrillNotes on ContributorsIndex

"Rather than a rare punishment inflicted on dissident elites, exile is revealed in this important volume as one of the defining features of African history since the colonial era. In their deeply researched and thematically linked essays, contributors present instances of exile from around the continent that illustrate the ambitions and limits of state power, extra-territorial strategies of resistance, and the capacity of relocation to spur both suffering and creativity. Africans in Exile masterfully enriches our understanding of two key themes in African history, mobility and community, and their salience for politics and individual experience over the past century and into the present."—Lisa A. Lindsay, author of Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa"This rich volume will interest scholars and students of Africa, the African diaspora, world history, legal history, and international affairs. Using exile as a theoretical framework, each of the chapters offers an analysis that is contextualized, complex, and challenging to assumptions about identity, power, and politics. An enjoyable read, this book will generate readership and invite much-needed debate."—Lorelle Semley, author of To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire"Overall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies that complicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa."—"Overall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies thatcomplicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa."—H-Africa"This book contributes significantly to African Studies as a field and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to better understand exile as a diverse yet defining feature of our age."—Christian A Williams - University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa, African Studies Review