Giulia Bonacci is a historian of Africa and its Diasporas. She is a researcher at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in France. Her research on the Back to Africa movement, the social history of Pan Africanism and the Rastafari movement has taken her to many sites around the Black Atlantic. In addition to using the classical materials of history (archives, prints, maps and photographs), she has undertaken extensive collection of oral histories, in French, English, and Amharic. She has edited and coordinated books and special issues of periodicals. In addition, she has published many scholarly papers, as well as worked in cultural and musical journalism.

Foreword by Professor Elikia M’Bokolo, Research Director at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France), and Professor of History at the Université de Kinshasa (DRC).