The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World

Peter Mark is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. He is the author of several books, including 'Portuguese' Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (2002) and The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest: Form, Meaning and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks of the Diola (Cambridge University Press, 1992), as well as multiple scholarly articles. Professor Mark has twice been an Alexander von Humboldt research Fellow at the Frobenius-Institut, Goethe Universitaet (Frankfurt). He has also held National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright Fellowships. Jose da Silva Horta is Assistant Professor, with tenure, of African History and of Expansion History at Lisbon University, where he is also a researcher at the Center of History. He serves as director of the Faculty of Letters Doctoral Program in African History and of the African Studies Undergraduate Program. He is author of A 'Guine do Cabo Verde': producao textual e representacoes (1578-1684), PhD dissertation, 2002 (revised to the press). His publications include A representacao do Africano na Literatura de Viagens, do Senegal a Serra Leoa (1453-1508) (1991) and articles in international journals.