Boubacar Barry (historian)
Boubacar Barry | |
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| Born | 1943 Guinea |
| Nationality | Senegalese |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of Modern and Contemporary History |
| Employer | Cheikh Anta Diop University |
| Notable work | Le royaume du Waalo, le Sénégal avant la conquête (1972), La Sénégambie du XVe au XIXe siècle: traite négrière, Islam et conquête coloniale (1988), Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa (1998) |
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Boubacar Barry (born 1943 in Guinea) is a Senegalese Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He was the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association, and he was selected as the 2016 honorary member of the American Historical Association.