The role of diaspora in revolution
Sudanese living abroad are key to the uprising: raising awareness and support for political and social transformation back home.
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The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
Despite the lack of coverage linking two regions, the visual ties between these cultures are quite strong.
Photographing the African Diaspora in New York City
A group of graduate students in New York photograph the city's immigrant and refugee communities, especially the African ones.
The boundaries of the Global African Diaspora
New York City's Caribbean Cultural Center seeks to “document and present the creative genius of African Diaspora cultures.”
Zimbabwean Diaspora Diaries
The UK is jokingly referred to as Harare North for its sizable Zimbabwean diaspora, second only to South Africa. This photo essay captures that world.
The technological circuits of the African diaspora
Given this history of Black dispersal and displacement, what might a liberatory mobility look like?
The first African diaspora
Cabo Verde’s success at the Africa Cup of Nations temporarily suspended the debate on the identity of the island nation's people.
Marcus Garvey’s Africa
The historian Robert Vinson explores Garvey's influence in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.
'For the Africans in the Diaspora'
…will just let the camera’s roll and let whatever happens, happen. What we capture we will
"… new trends in Africa and the Diaspora"
…The selected artists (“reflecting new trends in Africa and the Diaspora”) are Nirveda Alleck (above is “Suspended
A child of the Rwandan diaspora and the longing for home
A film about young Rwandan-Canadian creates more questions than it answers, particularly about identification, belonging, and memory.
The artist as citizen
An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”
Moving forward while standing still
Reflecting on the 60th anniversary of Somalia’s Independence with Fouzia Warsame, one of the country's most prominent academics.
Pan-Africanism begins at home
Official Ghanaian pan-Africanism is now less motivated by African liberation and solidarity and more by profit incentives. Ghana’s Year of Return is the best example of this.
African liberation and African scholarship
The Sixth International Congress of African and African Diaspora Studies in Accra in August 2023 foregrounds the struggle against African Studies as a form of knowledge production located, for the most part, outside Africa.
Beyond the headlines
Recent violence across the Eritrean diaspora is being instrumentalized by populists. But the violence is a desperate cry for attention and requires the Eritrean opposition to seize the moment for regime change.