This book contextualizes the biography of a West African forced migrant in Havana, Cuba from the 1770s to 1835. Following Prieto’s life chronologically, the eight chapters start with “Badagry”, the lucrative port controlled first by the Ọ̀yọ́ empire, then by Fon-speaking Dahomey, and once “Old Ọ̀yọ́...