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List: African-american expatriate writers in Europe in the 20th century.


 * Josephine Baker. (dancer). Memoir. Paris, France
 * James Baldwin. Paris, Istanbul, Switzerland
 * Hart Leroy (also Le Roi) Bibbs (* 1930). Published in France
 * Cecil Brown. Lived in Denmark.
 * Eugene Bullard. All Blood Runs Red (memoir)
 * Eldridge Cleaver. In Cuba, in Algiers, visited communist Korea
 * Anna Julia Cooper
 * Countee Cullen (1903-1946).
 * W. E. B. Du Bois. In Berlin (Germany), much later in Accra, Ghana
 * Ralph Ellison. In Rome, Italy, around 1957.
 * Jessie Fauset. London
 * Jimi Hendrix (1943-1970). London, since 1966.
 * Chester Himes. In Paris and in Spain.
 * Langston Hughes. Rotterdam, Paris; six months from February, 1924. Also visited (?) the USSR - published there.
 * Ted Joans. For a time in Timbuktu, also in Europe (?)
 * fr:Jake Lamar (* 1961). Thrillers. In Paris since 1993.
 * Andrea Lee (* 1953). Short-stories. Has lived in Russia, lives in Turin (Italy) with her Italian husband.
 * Janet McDonald (1954-2007). International lawyer(?) and writer for young adults. Memoir Project Girl. She lived in Paris.
 * Claude McKay. In London (radical paper), visited the USSR for a congress of the Communist International; lived in Paris, Marseilles and North-Africa
 * Gordon Parks (1912-2006). Photographer, writer, filmmaker. France (?), Paris (?)
 * C. Hatcher Polite. Dancer in Detroit, author in Paris, universtity teacher in Buffalo (1971-2000)
 * Archie Shepp (* 1937). Musician, writer (drama, poetry).
 * Mary Church Terrell. In Paris, also in Berlin (various times between 1888-1921)
 * Jean Toomer. Paris in 1924. Strong influence of Georges Gurdjieff
 * William Monroe Trotter
 * Melvin Van Peebles (* 1932). Writer, filmmaker
 * Carter Godwin Woodson 1908
 * Richard Wright (1908-1960). In Paris since 1946
 * Frank Yerby (1916-1991).


 * Visitors to Haiti
 * Zora Neale Hurston.


 * Visitors to Cuba

[PLUS: the political hijackers] [PLUS: refugees from law; BPP: Cleaver (Lee Lockwood: Talks in Algiers); later Newton; Black Guerilla (cop killers)]


 * John Hendrik Clarke (Fair Play for Cuba Committee)
 * Sonia Sanchez
 * Robert F. Williams
 * Sarah E. Wright


 * Ghana, c.1957-1966
 * Maya Angelou (also in Egypt?)
 * Ralph Bunche
 * Harold Cruse
 * St. Clair Drake
 * Shirley Graham Du Bois
 * W. E. B. Du Bois
 * Tom Feelings
 * Martin L. Kilson, Jr (* 1932)
 * Preston King
 * Leslie Alexander Lacey
 * Dr. Robert Lee
 * Pauli Murray
 * Julian Mayfield + Anna Leivia Cordero (from Puerto Rico)
 * George Padmore (from Trinidad)
 * Dorothy Padmore
 * A. Philip Randolph
 * William Gardner Smith (1927-1974). Novelist, journalist. Expatriate since 1951.
 * William Sutherland. Went to Ghana in 1953. Later married to Ghanaian writer Efua Sutherland

POSTSCRIPT: 18th/ 19th Century


 * flight of the Loyalists to Nova Scotia. Begin of Black settlement in Canada.


 * "Re-patriation" of free/freed Blackmen to Africa. Colonialisation, establishment of Liberia


 * French-Louisiana. Napoleon; Florida/Spain. The Louisiana Purchase


 * 19th Century, written in French; from New Orleans
 * Armand Lanusse. Visited Paris?
 * Victor Séjour (1817-1874).


 * 19th Century
 * William Wells Brown. 1849.
 * [[Frederick Douglas]