Theorising on the Genesis of Chorus Baila


  • Portuguese Burghers of Sri Lanka (trilingual: Portuguese, English, Sinhala) In: Portraits of Luso-Asians of Sri Lanka by João Palla Martins. Macau: Instituto Internacional de Macau (2021).
  • Musing on the Traditions of Afro-Sri Lankans and Afro-Maldivians. Awaaz, Kenya (2011).


South Asia’s Africans: A Forgotten People


The Portuguese Identity of the Afro-Sri Lankans


Crossing boundaries: Africans in South Asia


Indo-Portuguese Songs of Sri Lanka: The Nevill Manuscript


The Portuguese Cultural Imprint on Sri Lanka


Tense Mood And Aspect In Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole


Lost Narratives and Hybrid Identities in the Indian Ocean: Afro-Asians 📄 “Historias perdidas e identidades híbridas en el Océano Índico : los afro-asiáticos” by de Silva de Silva


Rethinking Africa’s transcontinental continuities

  • Transcontinental Connections:  Theorising on Afro-descendant Communities in Asia.  In:  Rethinking Africa’s transcontinental continuities in pre- and protohistory.  Ed:  Wim van Binsbergen. Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy/Revue Africaine de Philosophie 26-28:203-218 (2012-2014).

Reinterpreting Indian Ocean Worlds: Essays in Honour of Kirti N. Chaudhuri

  • Changing Economic Patterns in the Indian Ocean:  Effects on Sri Lanka.  In:  Reinterpreting Indian Ocean Worlds:  Essays in Honour of Kirti N Chaudhuri.  Ed:  S Halikowski-Smith.  UK:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2011).

A South Asian Community of African Descent: Continuing Linguistic and Musical Traditions
by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya


India’s Hidden African Communities


Portugal e Sri Lanka: interacções sociooculturais e contactos linguísticos. Oriente 17: 3-19, Lisbon, Portugal (2007).


African Slavery in Asia: Epistemologies across Temporalities and Space


South Asia’s Africans: A Forgotten People


Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya – Afro-Sri Lankais : liens et racines


SAARC Culture

Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya.


  • Language Maintenance and Loss among Afro-Asians in South Asia. In:  Language Contact and Language Shift.  Ed:  K Ihemere.  Munich: LINCOM Studies in Language Typology (2011).