African diaspora
Forced global dispersal
The African diaspora refers to the global dispersion of peoples of African descent, primarily through the Atlantic slave trade from the 16th to 19th centuries, but also through later voluntary migrations.
The term encompasses the descendants of enslaved Africans throughout the Americas and Caribbean, as well as African communities in Europe and elsewhere.
The African diaspora has profoundly shaped music, religion, and culture across the Western Hemisphere.
- NégritudeAfrican cultural consciousness movement
- double consciousnessAwareness of conflicting identities
- forced migrationInvoluntary mass relocation
- transatlantic slave tradeForced African deportation to Americas
- slave tradeCommerce in human beings
triangular trade · oral tradition · Middle Passage · call and response · heritage · Creole culture · liberation movements · abolition movement · freedom songs · colonialism · ancestral homeland · Afro-Brazilian · Afro-Colombians · identity · Brazil · Ghana · Harlem · Caribbean
- Black HistoryMartin Luther King Jr., MLK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
- African historyNubia, Dahomey, Oyo Empire, Scramble for Africa, scramble for Africa
- African studiesWest Africa, East Africa, North Africa, South Africa, Central Africa
- African MusicAfrobeat, highlife, afrobeat, Afro-pop, Afro-jazz
- Black Diasporamotherland, pan-Africanism, Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, maroons
- Black TheaterAugust Wilson, Dutchman, black experience, The Color Purple, Dreamgirls
African diasporaeconomic migration
Moving for financial opportunity
settler colonialism · European colonization · white flight · brain drain · expat community