This talk, by Dr. Omar H. Ali, is the Keynote Address for the Southeast Regional Seminar in African Studies and Southeast Africanist Network (SERSAS/SEAN) Virtual Spring Conference. Dr. Ali is Dean of Lloyd International Honors College and Professor of Comparative African Diaspora History at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The author of Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean, co-editor of Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora (3 vols.), and co-curator of the exhibit “The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World” with Sylviane Diouf at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, he is a founder of the Ethiopian and East African Studies Project at UNC Greensboro. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. Please register for the conference at the link below to receive the Zoom link for the talk.