Topics in African Diaspora History

Topics in African Diaspora History is a diverse body of various themes in the study of the African Diaspora. These themes include African Nationalism, Resistance, Pan-Africanism, Spirituality, Black Power and Transnationalism and they cover a broad spectrum of the Diaspora experience that spans across the globe. For purposes of this text, we are defining the African Diaspora as the dispersal of people of African descent to a location around the world (involuntary or voluntary) where they developed diasporic identities in their new locations and their eventual return or connection to their homeland of Africa.

Topics in African Diaspora History:

• provides perspectives of the stories of the economic, political, religious, and social impact of Africans and people of African descent around the world from an African-centered perspective.
• strengthens the study of the African Diaspora through historical methodology, theory and research.
• is a collection of essays that depict the stories of a people who transcended the physical, mental and emotional realities of very brutal environments in which they survived.