This volume, co-edited with Runoko Rashidi, is divided into five sections. The first discusses the people of Asia from Africa and identifies African people with Asia's first homind as well as modern human populations. The second section demonstrates the African elements underlying major early civilizations in Asia, an overview that includes India, Iraq, and Iran, Phonecia, Palestine, the Arabian peninsula, China, Japan and Cambodia. The third section discusses the African origin of the great religions of Asia--Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. The fourth section focuses on the historical and anthropoligical relationship between African people and Asia's Indo-European, Mongloid and Semitic populations. The final section deals with African bondage in Asia and provides a fascinating glimpse of the Dalits, the Black untouchables of India. Who are the Blacks of Asia? What have they done? What are they doing now? This volume seeks to answer these questions and to reunite a family too long separated. (100 illustrations)
