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The BASA newsletter has been publishing the latest research, archive material and events about Black and Asian History since 1991. Marika Sherwood, who had been the editor of the newsletter since its birth, recently handed over the reins to a new team led by Shelley Goffe-Caldeira. If you have any articles, book reviews or events that you would like to promote for the newsletter then please email Shelley at editor@blackandasianstudies.org
Marika Sherwood has compiled an index of the BASA newsletters from 1991 to 2007
You can download some samples of articles published in the BASA newsletters over the last 17 years:
International Conference on the Siddis of India and the African Diaspora in Asia by Cliff Pereira
A poem in memory of Claudia Jones by Peter Blackman
Community Memories by Liz Braby A Museum Oral History Project with BME communities
And some of the historical figures that have been written about by BASA members:
Ira Aldridge, by Oku Ekpenyon and Jonah Albert, the 'Negro Tragedian' famed for playing Shakespearean roles including Othello and Hamlet in Victorian Britain.
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, by Elizabeth Williams the slave who bought his freedom and published his autobiography 'The Narrative of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw an African Prince' in about 1770.
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
The Black and Asian studies association
B.A.S.A 2007