About Afro-Vision

The Afro-Vision Experience

At Afro-Vision.com, you can do many things. You can explore internet resources on Africa, African American subjects, and various areas of the African Diaspora. You can understand how to deepen your internet research by following the internet trail of famous turn of the century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. You can begin the unique process of finding a picture of someone from history that looks just like you. You can obtain materials and displays on Black History. You can find resources for education or become connected to hundreds of sites all over the world. You can chat with each other, even translate simple documents. You can consult with Afro-Vision founder, Daud Malik Watts.

For the past 26 years, Daud Malik Watts has been an activist in the field of African and African American education, developing original materials and publications, making numerous presentations at scholarly and community forums (including the Smithsonian Institution, universities, and the African Studies Association), and contributing through media, consultancies, and productions to raising consciousness of African Americans' heritage.

Afro-Vision was initially based on developing ways to utilize the over 4,000 dramatic primary source historical graphics that his research had already unearthed. These illustrations are from books and other forms of literature produced (primarily) in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. It also includes many of Daud's own original photographs. You may well be amazed at the number and beauty of images that historical records hold; and the ones we've collected represent only the tip of the iceberg. New /old images and data comes into the collection every day. New connections emerge from interacting and networking with scholars, graphic artists, and people from all walks of life. The internet has opened up this process even more. Because the internet has created a entirely new way to engage information from and about Africa, included in this site is a very useful, comprehensive and up to date Resource Guide on Africa.

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