Title: The African Diaspora-What is it? | BYTE
Headings: The African Diaspora-What is it?
The African Diaspora-What is it?
Content: She may never beat the drum of her ancestors, wear the regalia of her foremothers, feel the traditional land of her people, or dance to her traditional music. This realization can cause great pain. At the same time, she is forced to accept a new culture: a culture that once saw her as a commodity, a culture that caused her so much pain, a culture that may or may not reject her. Africans in the diaspora and indigenous Africans, who were once joint in space and time are geographically disconnected. 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.