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Afro-Turks: Oral Histories of Afro-Turks from 2018 to the Present
The Afro-Turks represent a cross-cultural encounter and an emergent history. The modern-day descendants of enslaved peoples in the 19th century, the Afro-Turks hail from the global expanse of the Ottoman Empire in Africa – Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Tanzania. When slavery was outlawed with the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the enslaved and their descendants relocated to southwestern Turkey to small villages outside of Izmir and Muğla. They worked as farmers and small shopkeepers.
Contemporary Afro-Turks base their national heritage and identity in the founding of modern Turkey, but only in the last 20 years have ...Read More
