European Invention of African Slavery Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade in West Africa And the African Diaspora in the Americas

Dr. Emmanuel Konde is currently an Associate Professor of History at Albany State University. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from Boston University in 1991, specializing in African History, Modern European History, and United States Foreign Relations. Emmanuel has taught at Tuskegee University, Morris Brown College, Morehouse College, Spellman College, and Clark Atlanta University. A 1998-1999 Fulbright Scholar to Africa, Dr. Konde taught history courses at the University of Buea in Cameroon and conducted research on women and politics there. Upon his return to the United States in 1999, Emmanuel was appointed chair of the Department of History, Religion and Philosophy at Knoxville College, where he later rose to Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Humanities Division. In addition to European Invention of African Slavery (2006), Dr. Konde has two other books ? The Bassa of Cameroon: An Indigenous African Democracy Confronts European Colonialism (1998) and The United States, Africa, and the World Since 1800: A History Reader (1998, 1999) edited with Janice Sumler-Edmund and Linda Tomlinson) ? and a forthcoming volume titled African Women and Politics: Knowledge, Gender, and Access to Political Power (The Edwin Mellen Press).Konde, Emmanuel is the author of 'European Invention of African Slavery Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade in West Africa And the African Diaspora in the Americas', published 2005 under ISBN 9780759354340 and ISBN 0759354340.