Martin A. Klein

Martin A. Klein (born 1934 in New York City) is an Africanist and an emeritus professor in the History Department at the University of Toronto specializing in the study of African slavery, and francophone West Africa: Senegal, Guinea, and Mali.

He has contributed to African historiography, with a focus on slavery, the slave trade, and the impact of colonialism on African societies. He is a past president of both the African Studies Association (U.S.) and the Canadian Association of African Studies.

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