Boubacar Barry (historian) explained

Boubacar Barry
Birth Date:	1943
Birth Place:	Guinea
Nationality:	Senegalese
Occupation:	Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
Employer:	Cheikh Anta Diop University
Awards:	2014 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association * 2016 honorary member of the American Historical Association
Notable Works:	Le royaume du Waalo, le Sénégal avant la conquête (1972), La Sénégambie du XVe au XIXe siècle: traite négrière, Islam et conquête coloniale (1988), Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa (1998)

Boubacar Barry (born 1943 in Guinea) is a Senegalese Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He was the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association,^[1] and he was selected as the 2016 honorary member of the American Historical Association.^[2]

Publications

Barry published many scholarly articles and books, including:^[3]

with Mirjana Trifković and Thierno Diallo (Eds.), Catalogue des manuscrits de l'I.F.A.N. : Fonds Vieillard, Gaden, Brevié, Figaret, Shaykh Mousa Kamara et Cremer en langues arabe, peule et voltaiques, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop (IFAN, Sénégal), Dakar, 1966.
Le royaume du waalo, le Sénégal avant la conquête, F. Maspero, Paris, 1972. M.A. thesis.
- translation The Kingdom of Waalo Senegal Before the Conquest, Diasporic Africa Press, La Vergne, 2017.
Bokar Biro : le dernier grand almamy du Fouta Djallon, [ABC], [Paris], [1976].
La Sénégambie du XVe au XIXe siècle : traite négrière, Islam et conquête coloniale, L'Harmattan, Paris, 1988. PhD thesis.
- translation Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1998.
with Pierre Kipré and Leonhard Harding (Eds.), Colloque international "Commerce et commerçants en Afrique de l'Ouest: l'exemple du Sénégal et de la Côte d'Ivoire, Conference papers and proceedings, two volumes, L'Harmattan, Paris, 1992.
with Heinrich Pleticha (Eds.), Weltgeschichte : in 12 Bänden; [von den Anfängen der Menschheit bis zur Gegenwart]. Bd. 12 Krise und Fortschritt, Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh, 1996.
Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998.
with Elisee Akpo Soumonni and Livio Sansone, Africa, Brazil, and the construction of trans-Atlantic Black identities, Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2008.

Ibrahima Thioub, L'École de Dakar et la production d'une écriture académique de l'histoire, in Momar-Coumba Diop (Ed.), Le Sénégal contemporain, Karthala, Paris, 2002,

. OJRUSP 14 June 2013. Video duration 23m 8s. Barry discusses slavery in a conference panel. In French.

Web site: Distinguished Africanist Award . 2022 . africanstudies.org . African Studies Association . 27 October 2022 .
Web site: AHA Activities Boubakar Barry, Historian of Senegambia, Selected as 2016 Honorary Foreign Member . Klein . Martin . Nov 1, 2016 . historians.org . American Historical Association . 27 October 2022 .
Web site: Barry, Boubacar. 5 October 2024 . Worldcat.org . .