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Founding Callaloo

Dr. Charles H. Rowell founded Callaloo in 1976 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With its emphasis on critical studies of the arts and humanities, as well as creative writing, Callaloo has emerged as the most essential and continuously published journal in matters pertinent to African American and African Diaspora Studies worldwide.

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"I, like you, come from a people who have fought — and continue to fight — in a long struggle. I know that we must not merely survive; we must triumph. The ancestors do not expect anything less."

We envision a future where the literature and culture of the African Diaspora enrich every person.

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Founding Callaloo

"I, like you, come from a people who have fought — and continue to fight — in a long struggle. I know that we must not merely survive; we must triumph. The ancestors do not expect anything less."

- Dr. Charles H. Rowell

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