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According to Wikipedia, Linda Marinda Heywood is an American historian and professor of African American studies and history at Boston University. Heywood has a BA from Brooklyn College and a PhD from Columbia University. In 2008, she shared the Herskovits Prize for her book Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

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Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (2007) (149)
SLAVERY AND ITS TRANSFORMATION IN THE KINGDOM OF KONGO: 1491–1800* (2009) (70)
Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora: Introduction (2001) (55)
Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present (2000) (33)
Towards an understanding of modern political ideology in Africa: the case of the Ovimbundu of Angola (1998) (33)
Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 (2005) (28)
Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora: CENTRAL AFRICA: SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND THE SLAVE TRADE (2001) (27)
Unita and Ethnic Nationalism in Angola (1989) (26)
Angola: Politics, Economics and Society (1987) (25)
Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora: Portuguese into African: The Eighteenth-Century Central African Background to Atlantic Creole Cultures (2001) (24)
African Fiscal Systems as Sources for Demographic History: the Case of Central Angola, 1799–1920 (1988) (14)
“Walk in the Feenda”: West-Central Africans and the Forest in the South Carolina–Georgia Lowcountry (2001) (10)
The growth and decline of African agriculture in central Angola, 1890–1950 (1987) (8)
Southern Africa Since the Portuguese Coup (1980) (7)
'Canniball Negroes', Atlantic Creoles, and the identity of New England's Charter generation (2011) (6)
Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen (2017) (5)
2. Kongo and Dahomey, 1660–1815. African Political Leadership in the Era of the Slave Trade and Its Impact on the Formation of African Identity in Brazil (2009) (4)
African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy: From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama (2015) (4)
New York African Burial Ground History Final Report. Report and Bibliography (2004) (3)
Demography Production and Labor: Central Angola, 1890-1950 (1987) (2)
Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa. The Story behind the Battle for Angola (1988) (2)
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective: Mbanza Kongo/São Salvador: Culture and the Transformation of an African City, 1491 to 1670s (2014) (1)
Slave Trade and Slavery (1990) (1)
Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976-1991 - by Hatzky, Christine: Book Reviews (2018) (1)
The International Conference on Harmonisation and its Impact (2002) (1)
MOA volume 27 issue 1 cover and Front Matter (1989) (0)
Reflections on Lusophone Africa: Researching and Teaching in the U.S. and Abroad (2013) (0)
Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post‐Colonial Angola. By Assis Malaquias. (Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007. Pp.264. $39.95.) (2008) (0)
Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence. Edited by WILLIAM H. WORGER, NANCY L. CLARK and EDWARD A. ALPERS. Phoenix AZ: Oryx Press, 2001. Pp. ix+428. $85 (ISBN 1-57356-245-5). (2003) (0)
The Making of Kongo Identity in the American Diaspora: A Case Study From Brazil (2018) (0)
Mariana P. Candido, An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Pages 366. £66 hardback. (2015) (0)
Demography, Production, and Labor (2021) (0)
CHURCH, STATE AND WAR A Guerra e as Igrejas: Angola, 1961–1991. By BENEDICT SCHUBERT. Introduction by Christine Messiant. Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing, 2000. Pp. vii+ 251. CHF 30 (ISBN 3-908193-07-091). (2002) (0)
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 5, no. 1 (2020) (0)
Empire in Africa; Angola and Its Neighbors (2007) (0)
In search of the 1619 African arrivals (2019) (0)
Chocolate Islands: cocoa, slavery and Colonial Africa (2017) (0)

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