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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]