Career
She gave the keynote address to the United Nations General Assembly on March 25, 2015, during the commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Sylviane Diouf is the author of Slavery"s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (New York University Press, 2014). lieutenant was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
lieutenant has been translated into Turkish.
A 15th-anniversary, expanded, illustrated and updated edition was published in 2013. Diouf is the editor of the critically acclaimed Fighting the Slave trade: West African Strategies (Ohio University Press, 2003), the first book to study in detail African resistance to the slave trade.
She co-edited In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience (National Geographic, 2005). She has written several books for younger readers.
She authored a book on the lives of children enslaved in the United States, Growing Up in Slavery (Lerner, 2001).
Her fiction book Bintou’s Braids (Chronicle Books, 2001) has been published in the United States of America, France, and Brazil. She has also appeared on American Broadcasting Company. She is the Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library.
