Here are some websites of interest regarding African-descended peoples in Asia:

Africans in Asia
http://users.erols.com/arbs/Africaninasia.htm

--Very brief overview of the subject.

Africans in West Asia
http://www.colorq.org/MeltingPot/Asia/BlackWestAsians.htm

--Good overview of the subject.

Global African Presence
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html
--articles by historian Runoko Rashidi on African presence

worldwide including Southwest Asia, Japan and China, Melanesia,

Australia, Cambodia and the Phillipines. Many are historical in

nature.

Alva Moore Stevenson