Malik Ambar: Africans in the Making of the Indian Ocean World

Over the course of some twenty centuries, it is estimated that four million Africans–including sailors, traders, soldiers, and artists–migrated or were forcibly taken across the western Indian Ocean. In India, one Ethiopian rose to significant levels of power: Malik Ambar. For more than two decades during the early seventeenth century, Ambar ruled the Sultanate of Ahmednagar in the western Deccan. Through an examination of his life, the lecture will look at the making of the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean world.

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