Welcome to CSAAD

Advancing cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora.

Citadelle Laferrière, Milot, Haiti
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Welcome to CSAAD

Advancing cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora.

Salvador, Bahia
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Welcome to CSAAD

Advancing cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora.

Sirimou, Mali
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The mission of the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) at NYU is to advance cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora in ways that bring that scholarship into sustained conversation.

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Builder of the Next World: The Rise and Fall of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe

20 Cooper Square

CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series Dr. Marlene Daut Yale University Thursday, October 16, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 20 Cooper SQ, 5th FL, Room 503 New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91031695364 Slave. Revolutionary. King. Taken together, these words describe only one man: Henry Christophe I of Haiti. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother […]

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