Title: The African Diaspora-What is it? | BYTE
Headings: The African Diaspora-What is it?
The African Diaspora-What is it?
Content: Though, many cultures in the African Diaspora are traced with African influence – the Dominicans merengue, African Jamaican cuisine, African American music, and so forth. Cultures in the African diaspora strive to re-capture what was lost from their global scattering and colonization. Many who are accustomed to being regarded as simply black are adventuring for terminology that categorizes them as individuals who are members of a larger culture which does not simply reflect the colour of their skin. For Africans in the Diaspora, decolonization involves reclaiming their African identity that was stolen from them and dispelling the negative views of Africa they have been socialized to hold under colonization, seeing Africa for its true beauty. This reality was but a component of the birthing of Pan-Africanism – an intellectual movement fathered by many distinguished persons, including Jamaica’s Marcus Garvey
Pan-Africanism is a political doctrine, as well as a movement, with the aim of unifying and uplifting African nations and the African Diaspora as a universal African community. Pan-Africanism aims to build solidarity and unity among all people of African Descent to promote social, political and economic success. In essence, Pan-Africanism holds that Africans and Africans in the Diaspora share not only a history, but common destiny. Ending on the words of Teresa H. Clark from her speech on Bridging the Diaspora Divide – Honour the success of those within the diaspora. I think about when Alek Wek graced the first cover of Vogue Magazine, we were all South Sudanese, I think about when Kofi Annan became Secretary General of the United Nations we were all Ghanaian, when Barrack Obama was elected president of the United States, the texts and emails I got from across the continent, we were all African American and today forty eight hours after we lost one of the worlds greatest leaders we are all South African, as we think about Madiba (Nelson Mandela) he is often counted in one of two ways clearly he belongs to his people of south Africa but he is so much bigger than that, he is one for the ages who belongs to the world but I am going to ask this group here today to join me claiming him as apart of Africa and the Diaspora- he is ours.
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