Interviews

  • Interviewed on Afro-Sri Lankans by Dr. Chinthaka P. Meddegoda. 31 May 2023. Colombo.
  • Interviewed on Africans who ruled India by Sanchita Kedia, Juggernaut, 31 January 2023.

On Baila with Savithri Rodrigo for Kaleidoscope

  • Interviewed on Baila by Savithri Rodrigo, Kaleidoscope. 13 December 2022. Click Here

New Books Network, 15 December 2020

Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean

Interview: Nubiart (Interviewed by Kubara Zamani – Editor Afrikan Quest)

  • Interviewed on Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean by Ahmed Almaazmi (PhD candidate, Princeton University, USA) for New Books Network, 15 December 2020. Click Here
  • Interviewed on Qui sont les Afro-Sri lankais? (‘Who are the Afro-Sri Lankans) by Dr Vincent Hiribarren (KCL) for Liberation Africa, 12 May 2019. Click Here
  • Interviewed on Sri Lankan Baila for Dinamina, Lakehouse Newspapers Ltd, Sri Lanka, September 2018.
  • Interviewed on Global Portuguese by Claudia Almeida, Antena 2, Portugal.  June 2018.
  • Interviewed on the Portuguese Impact on Sri Lanka by Kumudini Hettiaracchi, The Sunday Times. July 2014.
  • Interviewed on Afro-Sri Lankans by Surani Perera, Ceylon Today.  July 2014.
  • Interviewed on Sri Lankan Baila by Marlon Bishop for Public Radio International: Afro Pop Worldwide on Africa in South Asia, 12 April 2013. Click Here
  • Interviewed by Frederick Noronha for the Navhind Times (Goa, India):  Goa has played an important role in the culture of Sri Lanka.  1 September 2012.

  • Interviewed by Ishara Jayawardena for the Daily News (Colombo, Sri Lanka):  Portuguese Footprints in the Sand.  19 August 2012.
  • Interviewed by Melissa Bennett for the Jubilee Time Capsule by the Royal Commonwealth Society, July 2011.
  • Interviewed on African Identity in Asia by Priyath Liyanage, Head of the Sinhala section, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), World Service, Bush House, London (May 2009).
  • Interviewed on Portuguese in the East by Priyath Liyanage, Head of the Sinhala section, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), World Service, Bush House, London (May 2009).
  • Interviewed for ‘Sri Lanka’s African Families Fade Away’ by Mel Gunasekera, Agence France Presse, published on 15th November 2009 and Telegraph UK 20 November 2009.
  • Interviewed on Africans in Sri Lanka by Maura O’Connor, American Journalist, Reporter for Daily News, Sri Lanka, 2008.
  • Interviewed on Africans in Southeast Asia by Kubara Zamani, Afriquest (London) (2008).
  • Interviewed on the Eastwards African diaspora by the Portuguese section of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), World Service, Bush House, London, September 2003.