Historical & cultural questions for Armenian Diplomacy
with Africa, West Indies & African Americans

  • - 1/ Africa mentionned in Armenian medevial manuscripts (Movses Khorenatsi, Anania Shiragatsi, etc.) ?

  • - 2/ Relations betwen Armenia and Ethiopia in the past since the Middles-Ages are well known. What about for to-day, in the present time, after the important political changes which occured lately in both countries?

  • - 3/ in the past, were there African students in Armenia ? Are there to-day?

  • - 4/ in the past, what were the African delegations which visited Armenia? What about to-day?

  • - 5/ Pushkin had some Armenian acquaintances (one was an Armenian doctor when he was exiled in Moldavia). Did these Armenians in their writings develop thoughts about the African roots of the great Russian writer?

  • - 6/ what did famous Armenians (writers, poets, etc. ex: Mikael Nalbantian, Stepan Voskan, Dzerents, Daniel Varoujan, etc.) think of transatlantic slave trade and slavery?

  • - 7/ how the American Civil War was reported in the contemporary Armenian press ?

  • - 8/ when the Black American opera singer Paul Robson visited the Soviet Union during the years of 1958-59, did he meet any Armenians? (opera singers, musicians, etc.)

  • - 9/ same questions for when some of the Black Panthers rulers visited the S.U.

  • - 10/ did Angela Davis go to the S.U.? Also for other famous Black Americans? Do you think if among these Black people happenned to meet Armenians, they felt they had something in commun : because of a commun past of being victims of crimes against humanity not recognized?

  • - 11/ Have some actual Black American writers or intellectuals been in Armenia? (Maia Angelou, etc.) Have any of their works been translated in Armenian or been studied?
    - 11'/ Musicians, jazzmen ... ?
    - 11''/ Sportsmen?

  • - 12/ Are there Blacks in the American Embassy of Yerevan or at the American University of Yerevan ? (when I accompanied a friend to Charles de Gaulle Airport last year on her way to Armenia, I noticed an Afro-American going to Armenia) Rev. Jessee Jackson of Chicago, visited Armenia after the earthquake (Jan-Feb 1989). Here are two questions :

  • - 13/ The Armenian persons (translators, journalists, doctors, etc...) who accompanied Jesse Jackson. What did they notice about Jesse Jackson and the persons of his organisation who accompanied him?

  • - 14/ I have the article on "Hayréniki Tsayn" about this visit. Are there other articles published in Armenia?

  • - 15/ I have heard that there a person in Armenia who has adopted many children from various origins. She lives in Yerevan and one of his sons is now a Black young teenager. Is it possible to get in touch with her?

  • Nil V. Agopoff - CRDA

  • Please see Africanité & Arménité
A compléter

-I.Présentation - II.Arménologie - III.Fonds documentaire du CRDA - IV.La vie arménienne en diaspora -V.La culture arménienne & l'Art - VI.Histoire - VII Arménie(s) - VIII.Les différents environnements & l'Arménie - IX.Génocide de 1915 et enchaînements politico-médiatiques - X.Inconscient(s) collectif(s), Mémoire(s) et 1915 - XI.Religion(s) et Théologie(s)