The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African
influence in Harlem. From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was
the intellectual and cultural center of the Black world. The Harlem
Renaissance movement brought together Black writers, artists, and
musicians from different backgrounds who helped rethink the place
of Black people in American society at a time of segregation and
lack of recognition of their civil rights. But where is the story
of African immigrants in Harlem's most recent renaissance? Africans
in Harlem examines the intellectual, artistic, and creative
exchanges between Africa and New York dating back to the 1910s, a
story that has not been fully told until now. From Little Senegal,
along 116th Street between Lenox Avenue and Frederick Douglass
Boulevard, to the African street vendors on 125th Street, to
African stores, restaurants, and businesses throughout the
neighborhood, the African presence in Harlem has never been more
active and visible than it is today. In Africans in Harlem, author,
scholar, writer, and filmmaker Boukary Sawadogo explores Harlem's
African presence and influence from his own perspective as an
African-born immigrant. Sawadogo captures the experiences,
challenges, and problems African emigres have faced in Harlem since
the 1980s, notably work, interaction, diversity, identity,
religion, and education. With a keen focus on the history of
Africans through the lens of media, theater, the arts, and
politics, this historical overview features compelling
character-driven narratives and interviews of longtime residents as
well as community and religious leaders. A blend of
self-examination as an immigrant member in Harlem and research on
diasporic community building in New York City, Africans in Harlem
reveals how African immigrants have transformed Harlem economically
and culturally as they too have been transformed. It is also a
story about New York City and its self-renewal by the contributions
of new human capital, creative energies, dreams nurtured and
fulfilled, and good neighbors by drawing parallels between the
history of the African presence in Harlem with those of other
ethnic immigrants in the most storied neighborhood in America.
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