Edda L. Fields-Black

Edda L. Fields-Black, associate professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of History, is a specialist in the history of pre-colonial and West African history. She has conducted research and lived in Guinea, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, and Georgia to uncover the history of African rice farmers and rice cultures She is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora.

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