Giulia Bonacci is a historian and researcher at the Institute for Development Research (IRD) and posted at URMIS, Université Côte d’Azur, France. With her Jamaican and Ethiopian colleagues, she works on the intellectual, social and cultural circulations between Africa and the African diasporas since the 19thcentury. Her publications include the multiple award-winning book Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia was translated from the French and published by the University of the West Indies Press (2015); Cuba & Africa. Writing an Alternative Atlantic History, 1959–1994, Wits University Press, 2020, with A.Delmas et K.Argyriadis) and the issue A 2020 Vision Perspective on the Rastafari Movement, IDEAZ, 2020, coedited with M.Barnett et E.McLeod). Other contributons have been published in Slavery & Post-slavery, Tumultes, Northeast African Studies, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Volume! and New West Indian Guide.
The expression Global Africa appears more and more regularly in a wide range of areas. In English it is mainly used to illustrate the relationships and interconnections between Africa and the world. M…
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