Books by Author Onyeka Nubia

Onyeka Nubia, 2019

This is a book whose trajectory is often misunderstood. For the first time, this monograph exhaustively details early modern English ethnography, using the words of Renaissance writers. These writers talk about: the Curse of Ham, ethnographic relativism, the beauty and power of blackness, and who was the ‘original man.’ And it is truly enlightening work.

Hakim Adi, 2019

A fantastic chapter in a great book. This chapter builds on the work in Blackamoores. And it explores the agency of Africans in early modern England. Did they have their own culture? Were they capable of self-determination?

Onyeka, 2013

A groundbreaking book that changed the way that we look at British history. It not only challenges the common perception of Africans being absent from early modern England, but also their automatic servility. Other writers have scoped such a presence, but this book was the first to systematically answer the ‘big questions’ on these people’s: presence, status, and origins.