Clifford Pereira

Clifford Pereira is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is a consultant to, and has researched ethnic communities in London and Kent for, the National Maritime Museum, the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, Bexley Heritage and Bexley Local Studies. His Biography of Thomas Stephens, the first recorded Englishman in India, was published by the Thomas Stephens Konkani Academy, Goa (2003). His work on the Bombay Africans was published in the Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire, Nantes, France (2007). He was a participant at the UNESCO International Symposium on The Cultural Interactions Resulting from the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Arab-Islamic World, Rabat and Marrakech, Morocco (2007), where he delivered a paper on the “Employment of Moslems and Africans by the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century” which is to be published by UNESCO (2008). His exhibition on the Bombay Africans in the European exploration of East-Central Africa was launched, in October 2007, by the Royal Geographical Society and the National Museums of Kenya.

[from page 191 of Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia, published in 2008]