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KSHETRI, NIR. "THE DIASPORA AS A CHANGE AGENT IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP-RELATED INSTITUTIONS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 18, no. 03 (September 2013): 1350021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946713500210.
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Diaspora networks' role in supporting and stimulating entrepreneurial activities in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies need hardly be elaborated. For instance, some SSA countries have established government agencies to encourage diasporas to help local communities and provide policy advice. At the 2003 Extra-Ordinary Summit of the Assembly of Heads of State and Governments, the African Union (AU) amended Article Three of its Constitutive Act to invite and encourage African diaspora's active participation. However, institutional changes associated with diaspora networks are a phenomenon that has been noted but poorly understood. This paper addresses a little examined intersection between the diaspora literature and the institutions literature. We examine the contexts, mechanisms and processes associated with diaspora networks' roles as institutional change agents in the context of entrepreneurial behaviors in SSA economies. Our dependent variables are measures of changes in institutions associated with diaspora network. We have related our analysis mainly to the nature of the diaspora networks compared to other networks, characteristics of the environments in which diaspora networks are embedded in and operate, and some activities, mechanisms and modes that serve to transmit institutions from the host country to the homeland.
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Bakewell, Oliver. "In Search of the Diasporas within Africa A la recherche des diasporas à l'intérieur de l'Afrique." African Diaspora 1, no. 1-2 (2008): 5–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187254608x346024.
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Abstract In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has moved out of its specialist corner, where it referred to a select set of peoples. Today it often appears to be used to refer to any group of migrants and their descendants who maintain a link with their place of origin. African diasporas are now being identified all over the world and they have become the object of considerable academic interest. While the term diaspora is now in vogue for such groups scattered around the globe, it is rarely applied to African populations within Africa. Ironically, within the growing volume of literature on African diasporas, very little of it is concerned with diasporas whose population is based on the continent. Africa is portrayed as a continent which generates diasporas rather than one in which diasporas can be found. Starting from Cohen's typological criteria for identifying diasporas, this article makes a preliminary examination of the literature in search of signs of diaspora formation and to identify particular diasporas within Africa. It argues that despite the long-standing patterns of mobility across Africa, which might be expected to have created diasporas, relatively few migrant groups appear to have established a diasporic identity that persists into second or third generations. This raises many questions about identify formation and the relations between migrants and 'host' societies and states. These can only be addressed through research looking at diaspora formation in Africa; this is no easy task as it is fraught with conceptual, methodological and ethical difficulties. Dans les vingt dernières années, le terme de diaspora a quitté le domaine des spécialistes, chez lesquels il désignait un groupe précis de personnes. Aujourd'hui, il semble être souvent utilisé pour se référer à n'importe quel groupe de migrants et de leurs descendants qui maintient un lien avec sa région d'origine. Les diasporas africaines sont aujourd'hui identifiées partout dans le monde et elles sont devenues l'objet d'un intérêt académique très important. Alors que le terme de diaspora est aujourd'hui en vogue pour désigner les groupes dispersés partout dans le monde, il est rarement appliqué aux populations africaines qui migrent à l'intérieur du continent. Ironiquement, sur le volume croissant de littératures consacré aux diasporas africaines, une infime partie est dédiée aux populations vivant en Afrique même. L'Afrique est dépeinte comme un continent qui crée des diasporas plutôt que comme un continent au sein duquel on peut en trouver. En commençant par les critères typologiques de Cohen pour identifier les diasporas, cet article effectue un examen préliminaire de la littérature afin de trouver des signes de la formation de diasporas et d'identifier les diasporas spécifiques en Afrique. L'article souligne que malgré les schémas anciens de mobilité à travers l'Afrique, dont on aurait pu penser qu'ils créeraient des diasporas, relativement peu de groupes de migrants semblent avoir établi une identité diasporique qui subsiste encore dans la deuxième ou troisième génération. Cela soulève de nombreuses questions quant à la manière dont on identifie les formations et les relations entre les migrants, les sociétés hôtes et les Etats. Il n'est possible de traiter ces questions qu'à travers une recherche sur la formation des diasporas en Afrique, une tâche qui n'est pas aisée, émaillée de difficultés conceptuelles, méthodologiques et éthiques.
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RICHARDS, SANDRA L. "In the Kitchen, Cooking up Diaspora Possibilities: Bailey and Lewis's Sistahs." Theatre Research International 35, no. 2 (May 27, 2010): 152–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883310000064.
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This article analyses Maxine Bailey and Sharon M. Lewis's play Sistahs (1994) as an instance of African diaspora feminism in the Americas. The drama's focus on five women in a Canadian kitchen displaces the hegemony enjoyed by African Americans as signifiers of blacknesss, challenging spectators as well as readers to remember instead the long history of blacks in Canada and the existence of multiple African diasporas in the Americas. Further, its rewriting of a 1970s cultural feminism dramatizes the labour of fostering an African diasporic sensibility and subverts that paradigm's conventional emphasis on heteronormativity.
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Mlambo, Nefasi. "Diaspora, Gender and Identity Transformations inthe Context African Philosophy and Culture: A Case of Zimbabwe." International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering, Management & Applied Science XII, no. XII (2024): 101–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.51583/ijltemas.2023.121210.
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his paper sought to explore diaspora, gender and identity transformations in the context African philosophy and culture. The paper explored diaspora, gender and identity transformations of Zimbabwean society and the concomitant demise of socio-cultural practices, dissecting how diasporas have shaped its cultural identity. 20 participants were purposively drawn from adult Zimbabwean family members living in the diaspora or with diasporic lived experiences of more than three years. The author used a scoping review of literature related to African philosophy, diaspora, gender and identity using search engines. Questionnaires and interview schedule were also used to gather data. Results show that diasporic experiences produce fused, identity and gender modes of cultural dimensions marked by significant, negative transformations. Gender was found to be a central cog that affects every stage of the migration process, interactions and subsequent outcomes. Additionally, it was noted that men are the worst affected as they are faced with challenges of trying to model families within the philosophy or context of African gender, sex and identity whilst children born in the diaspora face a myriad of challenges trying to meet the desired or accepted status. From these findings it could be concluded that diaspora life and identity exist under highly toxic and polarized relations which harbours identity confusion, mental instability, altered gender roles and to some extent self-destructive behaviours like prostitution, drugs and substance abuse, mutilation and suicide. The researcher therefore recommends collaborative, large-scale researches with those in the diaspora. The government should establish Zimbabwean culture centres in countries where Zimbabweans are diaspora to preserve our philosophies. Another recommendation is to curb the diaspora ecstasy as well as provision of multicultural counseling to those in the diaspora.
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Awah, Jeremaih Acuro. "The African Diaspora in Russia: History, Contributions, and Potential for Africa-Russia Relations." Международные отношения, no. 2 (February 2023): 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0641.2023.2.40826.
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The African diaspora in Russia has a long and complex history, dating back to the era of the Soviet Union. Despite facing significant challenges, the African diaspora in Russia has made important contributions to Russian society and has the potential to play a key role in strengthening Africa-Russia relations. This article provides an overview of the history of the African diaspora in Russia, its contributions to Russian society, and the ways in which it can contribute to Africa-Russia relations. Drawing on existing literature and case studies, the paper analyses the challenges and opportunities facing the African diaspora in Russia and provides recommendations for policymakers seeking to strengthen Africa-Russia relations. The main conclusions from this article are recommendations for policymakers. The growing economic ties between Africa and Russia provide opportunities for future development, but policymakers must address the challenges facing the African diaspora in Russia to fully realize this potential. Policymakers can strengthen Africa-Russia relations and create a more inclusive and equitable society for all by promoting anti-discrimination policies, supporting African students and entrepreneurs, increasing cultural exchange and dialogue, and considering the African diaspora as partners and not instrument to promote its own interest. This will go a long way to improve the image of Russia abroad since the diaspora always act as a bridge to other world regions.
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Michaud, James, Elena Lvina, Bella L. Galperin, Terri R. Lituchy, Betty Jane Punnett, Ali Taleb, Clive Mukanzi, et al. "Development and validation of the Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the Diaspora (LEAD) scale." International Journal of Cross Cultural Management 20, no. 3 (December 2020): 361–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470595820973438.
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This article contributes to the literature on cross-cultural leadership by describing the development and validation of the Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the Diaspora (LEAD) Scale. The LEAD Scale is a culturally sensitive measure of leadership effectiveness in the understudied settings of Africa and the African diaspora. A combination of methods and four studies using samples from Africa and the African diaspora based in Canada, the USA, and the Caribbean were used to develop the measure. Using the grounded theory approach and the Delphi technique ( n = 192), followed by a set of increasingly rigorous tests including exploratory factor analysis ( n = 441), confirmatory factor analysis ( n = 116), and a test of measure invariance ( n =1384), we developed and validated a culturally sensitive measure of effective leadership. Our results demonstrate that spirituality, tradition and community-centredness are important and culturally specific components of leadership in Africa and the African diaspora. This paper provides a validated measure of leadership and offers recommendations regarding the use of the measure by managers and researchers working in Africa or with African diaspora.
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Dhakal, Lekha Nath. "Presence of Africa in African-American Literature." KMC Research Journal 1, no. 1 (June 29, 2017): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v1i1.28241.
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African traditions and rituals survived the antagonistic forces which transported them from their ancestral lands to other continents is an established fact in world history. However, how they have been employed in varied artistic forms still requires further investigation. The traditions and rituals still practiced by the people of African diaspora in various parts of the globe are connected to Africa. These primitive traditions stored both orally and in written form are abundantly found in African-American literature.
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Adell, Sandra, Olga Barrios, and Bernard W. Bell. "Contemporary Literature in the African Diaspora." African American Review 35, no. 2 (2001): 319. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2903266.
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Li, Yajing. "Navigating Identities in Flux: Exploring Diasporic Black Identity Issues in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah." International Journal of Education and Humanities 13, no. 3 (April 24, 2024): 212–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/70p5rt76.
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This paper critically explores the concept of identity in diaspora literature through Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, highlighting the identity crises and rebuilding efforts of the African diaspora within a postcolonial context. It examines the challenges faced by these individuals, such as racial discrimination, isolation, and prejudice in Western societies, and how they impact their quest for belonging. Utilizing identity theory, the study analyzes the experiences of characters like Ifemelu, Obinze, Uju, and Dike to understand their struggles with cultural displacement and the search for identity in either their homeland or abroad. Adichie’s narrative emphasizes the importance of maintaining cultural identity and self-confidence against the backdrop of global diaspora challenges. The paper concludes by recognizing Adichie’s significant impact on altering global views of Africa and her efforts to enhance African cultural pride, positioning her work as a key contribution to the discourse on diaspora and identity. Through Americanah, Adichie offers a profound insight into the diasporic experience, promoting a richer, more nuanced understanding of cultural diversity in our interconnected world.
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Veney, Cassandra R. "The Ties That Bind: The Historic African Diaspora and Africa." African Issues 30, no. 1 (2002): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1548450500006223.
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As we all know, the historic African diaspora in the United States is the result of the European slave trade, which resulted in millions of people being taken from Africa. Dei and Asgharzadeh correctly point out in this issue that this population and its descendents constitute a portion of the original African brain drain. Often, consideration of the causes of, problems of, and solutions to the African brain drain ignore this population and place most of the emphasis and research on the contemporary African diaspora. This may have to do with conclusions in some of the research contending that this historic diaspora lost all linkages to Africa. However, there is a vast body of literature that supports the claim that the institution of slavery did not totally sever social, cultural, economic, and political linkages.
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Giusti, Elena. "Africa and the making of Classical literature: on decolonizing Greco-Roman literature syllabi." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 65, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbac001.
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Abstract This article presents the author’s development and teaching of a year-long module on Africa in Greco-Roman literature and its receptions, and the challenges of imagining a decolonized pedagogy in Classics, and specifically in the subfield of Greco-Roman literature. It argues that the equivalence of curriculum ‘diversification’ with ‘decolonization’ can be pernicious in its tokenizing effects, and that a committed practice of decolonizing pedagogy cannot be limited to studying Africa in Greco-Roman texts, but should involve serious engagement with postcolonial and critical race theorists, as much as African authors and authors from the African diaspora engaging meaningfully with the Greco-Roman traditions.
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Stallings, L. H. "And Where that Language Does Not Yet Exist." American Literary History 35, no. 2 (May 1, 2023): 861–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad010.
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Abstract This essay-review is centered on two recently published contemporary works about language, literature, embodiment, and ritual: Ana-Maurine Lara’s Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty (2020) and Mecca Jamila Sullivan’s The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Poetics in the African Diaspora (2021). Exploring creative and critical praxis as method and object of study, both authors provide innovative studies of queerness and queer worldmaking in the work of African diasporic spiritual and artistic communities.Lara’s and Sullivan’s arguments seem most relevant and timely for what twenty-first–century Black theorizing must do: refuse US exceptionalism, solidify transnational solidarities/relations across the African Diaspora, . . . better prepare for the abolition of gender.
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Bush, Glen, and F. Abiola Irele. "The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora." African Studies Review 46, no. 2 (September 2003): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1514861.
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Ojaide, Tanure, and F. Abiola Irele. "The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora." World Literature Today 76, no. 2 (2002): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40157291.
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Kinyua, Jane Njeri. "Role of Natives in Diaspora and Africa Development. A Critical Literature Review." International Journal of Developing Country Studies 4, no. 1 (November 23, 2022): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/ijdcs.1129.
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Purpose: Diaspora matters have consistently attracted attention of many global actors. Today, many international organizations, as well as continental, regional and national entities, engage with their diaspora across the globe. The overall objective of this study was to examine role of natives in diaspora and Africa development. A critical literature review
Methodology: The paper used a desk study review methodology where relevant empirical literature was reviewed to identify main themes and to extract knowledge gaps.
Findings: This study concluded that relevant Governments are crucial and instrumental in promoting meaningful contributions by the diaspora towards economic development of homeland. Therefore, the government was required to increase her involvement through various ways to encourage the participation of stakeholders as well as building an enabling environment for diaspora abroad to increase their contributions towards the economic development. It was incumbent upon the government to create a strict investor environment and level playing ground regulations as well as the rule of law for the diaspora abroad aimed at promoting their participation in the economic development of the country.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: This study recommended that there was a need to establish diaspora database to include diaspora geographic distribution, mapping out of diaspora economic activities, investment flows, diaspora skills, and competencies. The database should also include annual economic trends especially regarding African diaspora contributions towards Africa economic development. The information from the database would inform definite plans for adequate engagement with diaspora as well as harness their contributions. There was need to deploy and embrace new technologies, particularly, digital technologies that facilitate increased social networks, connectivity, and timely information sharing. The new technologies would create a platform where all stakeholders in diaspora matters would interact more freely as they share their experiences and thoughts.
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Nkhoma, Nelson Masanche. "6 - Moving beyond Poststructural Paralysis: Articulating an Ethic of Diaspora Collaboration." Journal of Higher Education in Africa 16, no. 1-2 (January 10, 2022): 95–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v16i1-2.1474.
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Scholars in African higher education agree on the importance of collaboration with scholars in the diaspora. Despite this agreement, two major obstacles affect the implementation of collaboration: the politics of identity and difference and the common view of ethics as power. Literature on diaspora and collaborations tends to gloss over fundamental issues on the ethics of collaborations. In this article I reflect on how these two points of paralysis can be overcome by adopting an African humanist ethic that can drive the building of functional institutions to foster collaboration between and among scholars in Africa and those in diaspora. The article argues that in order to contribute to meaningful development in Africa, scholars need to move beyond the politics of identity and ethics as oppressive power.
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Batisai, Kezia. "BEING GENDERED IN AFRICA’S FLAGDEMOCRACIES: NARRATIVES OF SEXUAL MINORITIES LIVING IN THE DIASPORA." Gender Questions 3, no. 1 (January 13, 2016): 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-8457/818.
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 Critical engagement with existing scholarship reveals that many postcolonial African states have set up legal frameworks which institutionalise heterosexuality and condemn counter-sexualities. Clearly discernible from this body of literature is the fact that non-complying citizens constantly negotiate ‘the right to be’ in very political and gendered ways. Ironically, narratives of how these non-complying citizens experience such homophobic contexts hardly find their way into academic discourses, irrespective of the identity battles they fight on a daily basis. To fill this scholarly gap, I first insert the question of diaspora into the argument made extensively in literature that gender, sexuality and homophobia are intrinsic to defining national identity in postcolonial African states. Subsequently, I capture the experiences of queer Africans that emerged out of fieldwork conducted in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, between 2011 and 2014. The focus is on the narratives of sexual minorities who migrated permanently to South Africa to flee draconian legislation and diverse forms of sexual persecution in Zimbabwe, Uganda and Nigeria. Juxtaposed with the experiences of South African sexual minorities, deep reflections of how queer foreign nationals have experienced their bodies beyond the borders of their respective homelands tell a particularly interesting story about the meaning of the postcolonial state, read through the intersections of gender, sexuality and diaspora discourses. Local and foreign sexual minorities’ experiences are replete with contradictions, which make for rich and ambivalent analyses of what the reality of being a sexual minority in (South) Africa means. Contrary to queer Africans who construct living in South Africa as an institutionalisation of ‘liberty’, sexual minorities of South African origin frame the country’s democracy as an intricate and confusing space. Although analysed in this article, this conundrum paves the way for further engagement with the interplay between sexuality, homophobia and migration/diaspora discourses, which are often invisible to queer research on the continent.
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Harlin, Kate. ""One foot on the other side": Towards a Periodization of West African Spiritual Surrealism." College Literature 50, no. 2-3 (March 2023): 295–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lit.2023.a902220.
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Abstract: For both writers and scholars of African and diaspora literature, genre is a fraught concept. Western institutions, especially departments of English literature, have used the tool of genre to discipline Africana literatures and the people who create them, at once reducing conventional realism to a source of anthropological information and mischaracterizing realism with an indigenous or Nonwestern worldview as fantasy or "Magical Realism." "West African spiritual surrealism," as defined in this essay, offers a generic rubric that both attends to the literalization of Igbo and Yoruba cosmology in fiction as well as the ways these cosmologies can give rise to literary devices that resist hegemonic, Anglo-American centric literary interpretation. Through close readings of Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl (2005) and Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater (2018), this article historicizes West African spiritual surrealism as a geographically and ideologically diasporic genre that cannot be properly understood through frameworks of globalization alone. This genre and its writers require critics to read both deeply and widely in order to understand how West African spiritual surrealism places African cosmologies and people always already at the center of literary production.
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Okakpoturi, Ejedaferu Samson. "Literature of the Black Diaspora and the Performance of Caribbean and African American Aural Texts." Tropical Journal of Arts and Humanities 5, no. 1 (2023): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.47524/tjah.v5i1.18.
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The second half of the twentieth century, witnessed a new kind of literature often referred to as "Literature of the Black Diaspora; its appearance and acceptance into mainstream world literature was not without hostilities: overcame what seems like a futile effort, and now a major world literature. One salient feature of literature of the black Diaspora is the representation of aural texts in its composition and reception. This paper is therefore designed to examine the concept and performance of Afro-Caribbean and African American aurality as African legacy and constituent of the Black Literature. This paper, with reference to specific oral and aural texts, discovers that the performance of orality and aurality is a veritable heritage of the Caribbean and African American poetry and this criticism of the black vernacular tradition ranging from the spirituals and blues to jazz, calypso, reggae, hip-hop, gospel, and other contemporary poetic forms indicates that African American and Afro-Caribbean music is particularly rich in mixture of African tradition. The tradition was heralded by the forceful movement of Africans from their native land, through the middle passage, and their ultimate adaptation to a new land. Thus, music is to Africa as the anvil is to the blacksmith, and slavery was the surface on which American and Caribbean music was forged no matter how refined they are now. Aside emotional needs, as with Baldwin and Du Bois, music gives black people ―ability to say ―things‖ that otherwise cannot be said- blurs that boundary between the white man and the black man‖.
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Reddy, Vanita. "Femme Migritude." Minnesota review 2020, no. 94 (May 1, 2020): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00265667-8128421.
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This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude. Patel’s migritude poetics resonates with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which Africa is the site both of diaspora and of homeland. More important, it shows that Patel’s queer femininity unsettles a diasporic logic of racial exceptionalism. This logic aids and abets a (black) native/(South Asian) migrant divide in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. Patel’s femme migritude, as I call it, draws on nonequivalent histories of black and Asian racialized dispossession to construct a mode of global-South, cross-racial political relationality.
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Musila, Grace A. "The Legacies of Empire in Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You by Chance and Mengestu's All Our Names." Novel 55, no. 1 (May 1, 2022): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-9614955.
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Abstract While the Black Lives Matter movement is widely recognized and supported in Africa, its framing prioritizes experiences of anti-Blackness in the United States and the Black diaspora. This is partly owing to the movement's genesis as a direct response to domestic forms of anti-Blackness, including police brutality, disproportionate Black incarceration, and systemic inequalities, but also because, as Jemima Pierre argues, Africa is often perceived as “the site of racial otherness,” making engagements with racialization in Africa appear redundant. This paper considers how two contemporary African writers—Nigerian Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and Ethiopian American Dinaw Mengestu—comment on anti-Blackness in Africa. This article views Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You by Chance and Mengestu's All Our Names as using trickster figures to critique the racially inflected narratives of modernity, Euro-American imperialism, and neoliberal capital in Africa. In the process, they invite us to join the dots between domestic patterns of anti-Black violence in the Black diaspora and Euro-American destruction of African lives through the debilitating systems of slavery, colonialism, the Cold War, and neoliberal capital in Africa. The two novels’ portraits challenge the Black Lives Matter movement's thin engagement with anti-Blackness in Africa by demonstrating how historic and ongoing dehumanization of Africans serves to normalize similar dehumanization of Afro-descended people across the globe.
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Zhenwu, ZHU, and HUANG Lingya. "The Road to Nobel Prize and the Diaspora Classification of African Writers." Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 001–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.001.p.
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When the Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2021, many people thought it was another “surprise” of the Nobel Prize, but that is not the case. The Prize has a history of 120 years and has so far been awarded to 118 writers, seven of whom are African writers. The proportion is not high indeed, but it is undoubtedly higher than that in Asia, South America, Australia and some other regions. A careful study of the works of African writers will enable us to perceive the open and broad cultural vision and the inclusive and tolerant humanistic spirit, and to capture the unique aesthetic representation, cultural implication and regional elements in their works. And in comparison with the literature of other regions diaspora syndrome is particularly prominent. Local diaspora, foreign diaspora, and colonial diaspora, so to speak, constitute both the main features of African literature and the three types of Nobel Prize writers. Gurnah’s reception of the award once again proves that the richness, inclusiveness and foresight of African literature play a positive role in promoting the diversity of world literature and the real emergence of new forms of human civilization.
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Yerima-Avazi, Dina, and Chinonye Ekwueme-Ugwu. "Negotiating Black Identity." Matatu 52, no. 2 (October 20, 2022): 368–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05202007.
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Abstract This paper interrogates location as a fulcrum for hybrid identity creation for African characters in Africa, African Americans and African characters in the Diaspora. Over time, identity has been negotiated on the basis of race, ethnicity and religion. These are often linked to a specific place and find expression in definitions of culture, suggesting location as a necessary component of culture and, by extension, a major influence on identity. Conceptual notions of diaspora and hybridity, as explored within the postcolonial theory, serve as the framework which research uses to comparatively query the negotiation of hybrid identity as given in Roots by Alex Haley and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. These two texts represent African American and African characters’ experiences, respectively. The study aims to reveal that regardless of regional difference and other nuances in the experiences of African American and African characters, hybrid identity creation for both African American and African characters, is tied to location—which, in this case, is Africa.
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Cofman-Simhon, Sarit. "African Tongues on the Israeli Stage: A Reversed Diaspora." TDR/The Drama Review 57, no. 3 (September 2013): 48–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00279.
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Over the last decade, Moroccan Israeli and Ethiopian Israeli actors have started to speak Maghrebi and Amharic, respectively, onstage. Their performances indicate a new, nonmainstream theatrical richness and “otherness,” and acknowledge diasporic cultures in Israel. “This is not a ‘trend,’ it is a return,” says a well-known Israeli singer—it is a reversed diaspora.
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Hilden, Patricia Penn. "Race for Sale: Narratives of Possession in Two “Ethnic” Museums." TDR/The Drama Review 44, no. 3 (September 2000): 11–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/10542040051058591.
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Have the Museum for African Art and the National Museum of the American Indian, both in New York City, been able to “move the center” from Euro-America to Africa, the African diaspora, or Native America?
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de Haas, Ricarda. "African diasporic literatures in the virtual space: Narration, interaction and performance in Teju Cole’s Twitter story ‘Hafiz’." Journal of Global Diaspora 3, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/gdm_00023_1.
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African writers from the diaspora as much as from the continent have emphatically embraced the potential of new media technologies. A vast and tightly woven network of literary enthusiasts connects writers, scholars, publishers, journalists and readers, who often interact independently from western publishing houses. Digital diasporic literatures are thus created within multiple cyberplaces that are interlinked. My article focuses on ‘Hafiz’ (2014), a collaborative piece published on Twitter by Teju Cole. Thirty-five voices jointly tell a story, thereby conjuring the illusion of an event that simultaneously takes place in metropolises of Nigeria, South Africa, Europe, the United States and India. With regard to the performative collaboration displayed in ‘Hafiz’, my article discusses how Achille Mbembe’s conceptualization of Afropolitanism ([2010] 2021), the relational approach to digital diasporas by Candidatu and Koen, and concepts of digital literatures can be fruitful for the analysis of new media based literatures.
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Woldegiyorgis, Ayenachew A., Lucas Luchilo, and Thanh Pham. "Academic Cooperation between Africa, Asia and Latin America." International Journal of African Higher Education 9, no. 3 (December 24, 2022): 105–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/ijahe.v9i3.16049.
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Interest has grown in the role of diaspora in advancing higher education and scientific research as academic mobility continues to generate more transnational communities a with high educational profile. The academic literature is picking up on how diasporas and their organisations facilitate academic and research collaboration between institutions in their ‘host’ and ‘home’ countries. However, this discourse largely focuses on those residing in industrialised countries, particularly Europe and North America. There is limited research on the diasporic relationship between and within regions in the Global South, and even less on diaspora mediated academic collaboration between Africa, Asia and Latin America. Against this backdrop, this article explores the role of diaspora in academic and scientific collaboration within and between these regions. It highlights some historical and contemporary migratory relations between them, along with student mobility as a means of formation of academic diaspora. The article argues that, among other things, the limited academic collaboration between countries of the Global South can be attributed to structural issues such as inequality in the geopolitics of knowledge and the characteristics of migrant communities. It also suggests possible future scenarios including trends in migration and the potential to foster scientific collaboration.
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Waliya, Yohanna Joseph. "African Literature on MAELD and ADELD Platforms." Afrique(s) en mouvement N° 7, no. 1 (February 7, 2024): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/aem.007.0055.
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La révolution numérique entraîne des transformations socioculturelles ainsi qu’une fracture numérique à travers le monde. La fracture est particulièrement évidente en Afrique en raison de l’adoption tardive de la numérisation qui affecte l’évolution de la littérature électronique ou e-lit. Pour combler cette lacune, la base de données multilingue sur la littérature électronique africaine et la base de données sur la littérature électronique de la diaspora africaine (MAELD & ADELD) ont été créées en 2021 pour informer le public de l’existence de la littérature électronique africaine née numériquement. Par conséquent, cette analyse vise à rendre compte de l’évolution de la littérature électronique africaine en Afrique et dans la diaspora en utilisant une méthodologie numérique de collecte, d’annotation et d’archivage des données sur le net. Outre l’introduction, cet article est également segmenté en quatre: la canonicité de l’e-lit africain, la pertinence et l’objectif du MAELD & ADELD, puis l’analyse du contenu de la base de données. Dans le troisième segment, j’expliquerai en détail la méthodologie de collecte et de sélection des données. Ensuite, dans le quatrième segment, j’analyserai le contenu du MAELD & ADELD. En fin de compte, je conclurai et donnerai mon point de vue sur la littérature électronique africaine ainsi que sur son avenir à l’échelle mondiale.
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Asangaeneng, Joseph C., Godwin U. Eka, and Iniobong E. Okon. "Identities and aesthetic representations in the black diaspora literature." Journal of Health, Applied Sciences and Management 6, no. 3 (August 27, 2023): 101–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/johasam.v6i3.13.
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The representation of black identity in African American literature is a subject of great and critical concern. Scholars have made deliberate efforts to address the racial issues, language, its oral nature among others; but little attention has been given to the identity and the representation of these identities in African American Literature. This study therefore, is an attempt to examine the concept of identity and its aesthetic representations in African American literature. The study engages a survey of texts in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, speeches, musical forms, rap and film which are selected as a result of their relevance to the research focus. These texts are subjected to critical analysis while references are made to secondary texts where applicable. It is discovered that the literature of the black diaspora. considers identity as a major theme in its discourse and this is represented in all forms of their literature. Identity, which could refer to a sense of ownership, is a major concern in the literature of the Black diaspora.
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Creque, Leah. "The Nobel Laureates in Literature of the African Diaspora." Journal of the African Literature Association 6, no. 2 (January 2012): 133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2012.11690184.
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Manguvo, Angellar. "Emancipating the “Kin beyond the Sea”: Reciprocity between Continental and Diasporic Africans’ Struggles for Freedom." Genealogy 3, no. 1 (March 20, 2019): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3010012.
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While the African Diaspora’s relentless commitment to the liberation of Africa from colonial bondage is well documented, the literature has, arguably, obscured the profound inspirations that Continental African people have had on Black Americans’ struggles against racism. Unfortunately, the downplaying of the pivotal role of the forces from Continental Africa divorces the understanding of the interconnectedness of transnational black consciousness. This paper contributes a greater balance to the understanding of black racial solidarity by discussing the formation and sustenance of the interrelationships between Continental African people and the African Diaspora, particularly in the United States, during the struggles of anti-colonialism in Africa and anti-racism in the United States, dating back to the turn of the 19th century. The paper conceptualizes the interconnectedness of the twin struggles from the Cross-national Diffusion theoretical framework. The theory offers appealing explanations and insights to the apparent mutuality regarding the formation, processes, outcomes, and consequences of the twin struggles. Galvanized by the common vision of emancipating the black race, the two movements were inspired by the exchange of ideological and organizational tactics, of which the exchange itself constituted another solid ideological tactic.
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Guyonneau, Christine H. "Literature of Francophone Africa and its Diaspora in Bibliographic Indexes: An Evaluation." African Research & Documentation 37 (1985): 27–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00007846.
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In the era of information explosion, published material is no longer the apanage of specialized journals. Researchers in all fields — and African literature is no exception — must gather data that are scattered in eclectic publications. For instance, three journals that do not specialize in literature recently published the following articles: Teisseyre, Ch. ‘Interrogation sur la littérature africaine d'expression francaise'. Revue Francaise d'Histoire du Livre 48 (1979): 805-811; Yaek'Olingo, Wufele. ‘Brefs regards sur l'image de l'autorité post-coloniale dans le roman africain de langue francaise’. Genève-Afrique 19 (1) (1981): 103-122; Menga, Guy. ‘Expérience d'un dramaturge: l'essor du théâtre moderne au Congo’. Ethnopsychologie 35 (2-3) (April-Sept. 1980): 81-86. In this study, several interdisciplinary indexes which cover journals pertaining to francophone African literature (including but not limited to, monographs, collective works, dissertations, and proceedings of conferences) are analyzed and compared in terms of their coverage, relevancy and currency.
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Wilson, Betty L. "Under the Brutal Watch: A Historical Examination of Slave Patrols in the United States and Brazil During the 18th and 19th Centuries." Journal of Black Studies 53, no. 1 (October 6, 2021): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00219347211049218.
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Though less discussed in the literature, slave patrols played a significant role in continuing and sustaining the system of slavery. While few scholars have dedicated attention to exploring the history of slave patrols in the United States (US), there remains a dearth of research analyzing the slave patrol system in Brazil, despite the existence of slavery in this area of the African Diaspora. Using a historical perspective, this article compares and examines the establishment, function, expansion of slave patrols in the US and Brazil between the 18th and 19th centuries. This article adds to the scholarly discourse and historical literature on the experiences and conditions of enslaved people in the African diaspora (i.e., US and Brazil) under the brutal watch of slave patrols. Future research and investigation is needed to gain nuanced understanding of slave patrols not only in these two specific geographical regions, but globally across the African diaspora.
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Chireau, Yvonne. "Looking for Black Religions in 20th Century Comics, 1931–1993." Religions 10, no. 6 (June 25, 2019): 400. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10060400.
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Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity, Islam, Africana (African diaspora) religions, and folk traditions such as Hoodoo and Conjure in the 20th century. Even though the treatment of Black religions in the comics was informed by stereotypical depictions of race and religion in United States (US) popular culture, African American comics creators contested these by offering alternatives in their treatment of Black religion themes.
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McLaren. "Expanding the Channels of the African Diaspora." Research in African Literatures 44, no. 1 (2013): 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.44.1.179.
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Jacobs, J. U. "Picturing the African Diaspora in recent fiction." Current Writing 21, no. 1-2 (January 2009): 97–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929x.2009.9678313.
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Marzioli, Sara. "Cannibalizing the Black Atlantic in F. T. Marinetti’s Interwar Writing." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 23, no. 4 (September 1, 2021): 547–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.23.4.0547.
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Abstract In this article, I address Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s writing that borrows from the cultural discourses of the Atlantic African diaspora of the interwar years. I analyze two texts, the play The Drum of Fire and the short story “The Black Man,” both written in 1922; these are traversed by contemporary anticolonial discourses in Africa and the Black American rhetoric of emancipation, which Marinetti appropriates as prime examples of modernity and revolutionary politics. Far from expressing anticolonial and emancipatory sentiments for people of African descent, I argue that Marinetti coopts these discourses to project Italy at the center of the Atlantic world, as the locale of technological and cultural novelty. Between primitivist stereotypes and celebrations of cultural hybridity, these texts reflect Marinetti’s attention for Black cultures of the Twenties, beyond the well-known “jazz craze.” Steeped in current historical events, including Italian migration to the United States, the texts analyzed here demonstrate the contribution of African diasporic cultural discourses to a pivotal phase of Italy’s own nation building, when the country is striving to establish itself as a modern, politically relevant nation on the international stage.
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Filho, Wilson Trajano. "The Conservative Aspects of a Centripetal Diaspora: The Case of the Cape Verdean Tabancas." Africa 79, no. 4 (November 2009): 520–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0001972009001053.
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This article deals with the continuous flow of resources, values and goods that takes place within a Cape Verdean institution called tabanca. It examines the effects of some practices of the so-called Cape Verdean diaspora on local forms of sociality in Santiago's tabancas, in order to show that these flows have a remarkable conservative tendency and contribute to the reproduction of traditional forms of social organization. The Cape Verde I present in this article is at variance with the standard image of the country in current anthropological literature, which approaches social life in the archipelago using analytical tools developed in interdisciplinary fields such as globalization theory and post-colonial, transnational or diasporic studies. Through the ethnographic analysis of the flows within the tabanca, I put the Cape Verde case in the general context of West African political culture to argue that some of its attributes, which appear in literature on transnationalism, diaspora and globalization as the outcome of contemporary transformation, can best be explained in terms of a conservative structural continuity with the political culture that evolved in the northern part of West Africa, known as Senegambia.
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Virkkunen, Joni, and Minna Piipponen. "African Immigrants in Russia." DEMIS. Demographic research 1, no. 1 (2021): 45–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/demis.2021.1.1.5.
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While the Russian migration literature captures well social and economic realities of Central Asian labour migrants, it takes only an infrequent notice of other less visible groups of immigrants. One of such groups, African immigrants, is estimated to consist of about 40,000 individuals, mainly from North and Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper looks at the African immigrants in Russia. After identifying the African immigrants, the article focuses on refugees and economic migrants in more detail. Who are the African immigrants in Russia? How do they see Russia and Finland as the countries of immigration? The study is based on scholarly literature of African immigration to Russia and asylum interview documents of the African asylum seekers in Finland. The most prominent group of Africans in Russia are immigrants distributing advertisements at metro stations in large cities such as Moscow. However, these immigrants struggling with their poor status are only part of the Africans in Russia. The highly educated African diaspora and businessmen trained in the Soviet Union, as well as the staff of the delegations, live well- off lives in Russia and there is little interaction between the above-mentioned “new” immigrant groups. In this article, we focus especially on the “new” immigrants who arrived in Russia after the break-up of the Soviet Union and their stories of everyday insecurity. International crime and human trafficking enable asylum seekers to move around in Europe today. At the same time, it puts several groups of people, such as women, children and the low-skilled, particularly vulnerable to various forms of exploitation during the journey.
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Anderson, Jan. ""Yuh Mad Man!" Lying Letters: Speculations on the Catalysts of Male Madness in Caribbean Literature." Caribbean Quilt 1 (November 18, 2012): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/caribbeanquilt.v1i0.19047.
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Jan Anderson is invested in tracing the Trajectory Home (a working title for a collection of essays) among the African Diaspora, particularly those of Caribbean descent. The experiences and contestations over issues of belonging, citizenship, and nation building are also at the heart of Jan’s work. Jan’s submission has led to a focus on the recurrence of disenfranchisement as a legacy of “diaspora” and the resulting fissures in male/female relationships.
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Baldwin, Kate. "Soul Mates." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 9, no. 3 (December 2000): 399–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.9.3.399.
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In a recent interview with the New York Times, Alice Walker describes her undergraduate years at Spelman College as marked by a fascination that, in her estimation, put her at a remove from the students around her. Walker reflects, “I paid as much attention to Russian literature as many of the other girls paid to makeup, clothing and boys” (Gussow 10). But if this kept her away from her college-mates, Walker’s predilection for Tolstoy and Dostoevsky placed her squarely within the paradigm that Dale Peterson proposes in his study of affinities between Russian and African American literatures. Eschewing the conventional boundaries between Russian and American literary studies that have characterized the exceptionalist enterprises of each, Peterson brings together literature from both canons. He is interested less in explicit influences across the “wall” of cultural and national separation than in “structures of mentality” that have produced comparable articulations of ethnic self-consciousness in the guise of a literature ofthe “soul.” Peterson’s argument is that the exclusion of both Russians and African Americans from the Western European narrative of world progress and civilization, as based on German Idealist philosophy, ignited in each a determination to shape a counterclaim. This counterclaim took shape through an assertion of an essentialist selfhood expounded in a rhetoric of “soul.” Out ofthe exclusion from world-historical “Spirit” came the articulation of “soul.” Walker’s taste for the Russian literary greats, Peterson would argue, resonates with a history of relatedness.
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Kosec, Maja Maria. "Chinese Religions and the Cuban Revolution." Poligrafi 27, no. 107/108 (December 29, 2022): 225–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.35469/poligrafi.2022.340.
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The issue of religious practices within the Chinese diaspora in Cuba is increasingly debated within Chinese studies in Latin America. As the Chinese and African diasporas in Cuba have intermingled ethnically, their religious practices have historically also intermingled. While the rise of Afro-Cuban religions in recent decades is primarily understood as a response to centuries of Spanish colonialism and perceived as a resistance to Eurocentric hegemonic power, this article aims to examine the efforts of the Chinese diaspora to re-evaluate their religions from the same decolonial perspective. This article aims to determine the tendencies of interactions between Chinese religious beliefs and Cuba’s religions before and after the Cuban Revolution, including after the fall of the socialist bloc. Specifically, it examines whether post-revolution state atheism had an impact on the religious beliefs and ethnic heritage of members of the Chinese diaspora. In the 1990s there was a revival of the Guan Yu (关羽) cult which has been often interpreted as a consequence of the economic interests of the Chinese and Afro-Chinese diaspora or as a consequence of the interests of the Cuban government. However, we must also be aware of the broader historical, social and political context at play here.
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Kamp, Michelle, Okechinyere Achilonu, Isaac Kisiangani, Daniel Maina Nderitu, Phelelani Thokozani Mpangase, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Kayode Adetunji, et al. "Multimorbidity in African ancestry populations: a scoping review." BMJ Global Health 8, no. 12 (December 2023): e013509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013509.
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ObjectivesMultimorbidity (MM) is a growing concern linked to poor outcomes and higher healthcare costs. While most MM research targets European ancestry populations, the prevalence and patterns in African ancestry groups remain underexplored. This study aimed to identify and summarise the available literature on MM in populations with African ancestry, on the continent, and in the diaspora.DesignA scoping review was conducted in five databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Science Direct and JSTOR) in July 2022. Studies were selected based on predefined criteria, with data extraction focusing on methodology and findings. Descriptive statistics summarised the data, and a narrative synthesis highlighted key themes.ResultsOf the 232 publications on MM in African-ancestry groups from 2010 to June 2022—113 examined continental African populations, 100 the diaspora and 19 both. Findings revealed diverse MM patterns within and beyond continental Africa. Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases are predominant in both groups (80% continental and 70% diaspora). Infectious diseases featured more in continental studies (58% continental and 16% diaspora). Although many papers did not specifically address these features, as in previous studies, older age, being women and having a lower socioeconomic status were associated with a higher prevalence of MM, with important exceptions. Research gaps identified included limited data on African-ancestry individuals, inadequate representation, under-represented disease groups, non-standardised methodologies, the need for innovative data strategies, and insufficient translational research.ConclusionThe growing global MM prevalence is mirrored in African-ancestry populations. Recognising the unique contexts of African-ancestry populations is essential when addressing the burden of MM. This review emphasises the need for additional research to guide and enhance healthcare approaches for African-ancestry populations, regardless of their geographic location.
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Kennon, Raquel. "“Africa Claiming Her Own”: Unveiling Natural Hair and African Diasporic Identity in Lorraine Hansberry’s Unabridged A Raisin in the Sun." Modern Drama 64, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 283–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md-64-3-1120.
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In the phantasmagoric performance that begins the second act of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun (1959), Beneatha Younger emerges with a short “close-cropped” natural style after cutting off her straightened hair offstage. Although this is a seemingly minor theatrical moment, hair in this scene and Hansberry’s work and life serves as a powerful dramatic signifier, a political tool for self-understanding and liberation, and a cultural bridge between African and African diasporic identity. Drawing from archival material concerning the original 1957 playscript, Tracy Heather Strain’s 2017 documentary Sighted Eyes/Feeling Hands, and recent scholarship, this article examines how Beneatha asserts her own body politics and corporeal scripting in her interactions with two romantic prospects, Joseph Asagai and George Murchison, to argue that her relationship with each suitor represents the complicated ways she wrestles with the meaning of the African diaspora. By embracing her natural hair and making deliberate aesthetic self-fashioning choices, Beneatha reclaims an ancestral African identity and cultivates a global Black consciousness that ultimately exceeds specific performances of dress, dance, and hair.
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KITLV, Redactie. "Book reviews." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 86, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2012): 109–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002427.
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The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture, by Patrick Manning (reviewed by Joseph C. Miller) Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, by David Eltis & David Richardson (reviewed by Ted Maris-Wolf) Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery, by Seymour Drescher (reviewed by Gregory E. O’Malley) Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World, edited by Rosemary Brana-Shute & Randy J. Sparks (reviewed by Matthew Mason) You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery, by Jeremy D. Popkin (reviewed by Philippe R. Girard) Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World, by T .J. Desch Obi (reviewed by Flávio Gomes & Antonio Liberac Cardoso Simões Pires) Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850, by Frederick C. Knight (reviewed by Walter Hawthorne) The Akan Diaspora in the Americas, by Kwasi Konadu (reviewed by Ray Kea) Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (reviewed by Deborah A. Thomas) From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807, by Audra A. Diptee (reviewed by D.A. Dunkley) Elections, Violence and the Democratic Process in Jamaica 1944-2007, by Amanda Sives (reviewed by Douglas Midgett) Caciques and Cemi Idols: The Web Spun by Taino Rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, by José R. Oliver (reviewed by Brian D. Bates) The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context, by Antonio Olliz Boyd (reviewed by Dawn F. Stinchcomb) Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic, by Kimberly Eison Simmons (reviewed by Ginetta E.B. Candelario) Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean, edited by Philippe Zacaïr (reviewed by Catherine Benoît) Duvalier’s Ghosts: Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures, by Jana Evans Braziel (reviewed by J. Michael Dash) Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico, by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo (reviewed by Guillermo B. Irizarry) Report on the Island and Diocese of Puerto Rico (1647), by Diego de Torres y Vargas (reviewed by David A. Badillo) Land Reform in Puerto Rico: Modernizing the Colonial State, 1941-1969, by Ismael García-Colón (reviewed by Ricardo Pérez) Land: Its Occupation, Management, Use and Conceptualization. The Case of the Akawaio and Arekuna of the Upper Mazaruni District, Guyana, by Audrey J. Butt Colson (reviewed by Christopher Carrico) Caribbean Religious History: An Introduction, by Ennis B. Edmonds & Michelle A . Gonzalez (reviewed by N. Samuel Murrell) The Cross and the Machete: Native Baptists of Jamaica – Identity, Ministry and Legacy, by Devon Dick (reviewed by John W. Pulis) Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth Century, by Jonathan Schorsch (reviewed by Richard L. Kagan) Kosmos und Kommunikation: Weltkonzeptionen in der südamerikanischen Sprachfamilie der Cariben, by Ernst Halbmayer (reviewed by Eithne B. Carlin) That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, by Lars Schoultz (reviewed by Antoni Kapcia) Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, by Ivor L. Miller (reviewed by Elizabeth Pérez) Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution, by Jana K. Lipman (reviewed by Barry Carr) Packaged Vacations: Tourism Development in the Spanish Caribbean, by Evan R. Ward (reviewed by Polly Pattullo) Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century, by Emily Greenwood (reviewed by Gregson Davis) Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, edited by Annie Paul (reviewed by Paget Henry) Libertad en cadenas: Sacrificio, aporías y perdón en las letras cubanas, by Aída Beaupied (reviewed by Stephen Fay) The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives, by Babacar M’baye (reviewed by Olabode Ibironke) Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana’s Struggle for Independence, by Colin A. Palmer (reviewed by Jay R. Mandle) A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora, by Samuel Charters (reviewed by Kenneth Bilby) Man Vibes: Masculinities in Jamaican Dancehall, by Donna P. Hope (reviewed by Eric Bindler)
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Kopkin, Nolan, and Erin N. Winkler. "Naming Black Studies: Results From a Faculty Opinion Survey." Journal of Black Studies 50, no. 4 (April 15, 2019): 343–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934719842444.
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The ongoing debate about nomenclature has been part of the discourse in Black Studies since the late 1960s, yet there remains no consensus on an ideal name. The existing literature ties specific name choices to political, ideological, and paradigmatic approach; regional focus; and/or institutional and market pressure. In this study, we augment the literature with survey data on the opinions of Black Studies scholars. Our findings show “Africana Studies” is most often chosen as the ideal name, followed by “Black Studies,” “African Diaspora Studies,” “African American Studies” and “Pan-African Studies,” “Africology,” and “African Studies,” and that trends for positive and negative connotations follow a somewhat similar pattern. Just as the literature ties specific name choices to political, ideological, and paradigmatic approach; regional focus; and/or institutional and market pressure, so too do our respondents. It is our hope these results add to the ongoing scholarly discussion around nomenclature in Black Studies.
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Banengaï-Koyama, Torcia-Chanelle, and Lucas Kluge. "Diasporas and Political Instability." Diaspora Studies 16, no. 3 (August 30, 2023): 311–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/09763457-bja10058.
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Abstract Many studies have been published during the past decades highlighting the role played by diasporas in conflicts raging in their home countries and on the links between diasporas and international terrorism. Contemporary literature treats the links between diasporas and conflicts in a simplistic manner. For instance, little space is dedicated to determining the effect of diaspora on political instability in the home country. The current study aims to assess the effect of diasporas on political instability in Africa, taking into consideration the role of geographical distance when choosing the destination countries. To achieve this goal, we use two models to test our hypothesis. First, we deploy a gravity model to investigate the destination choice of migrants who build a diaspora. Based on their destination, we then use a fixed effects model and the generalised method of moment (GMM) to analyse the effects of the diaspora on political instability. Overall, we aim to research whether there is a correlation between migrant communities and the political stability in their origin countries. Our findings suggest that diaspora can act as a feedback factor to existing situations by either increasing or decreasing political instability dependent on the initial state the country was in, even though the greatest contribution of diasporas is in terms of peace not of war.
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Kennedy, James H. "Recent Afro-Brazilian Literature: A Tentative Bibliography." A Current Bibliography on African Affairs 17, no. 4 (June 1, 1985): 327–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001132558501700403.
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In recent years, increased interest in black studies in the U.S. has fostered an upswing in research in Afro-Latin American literature. The explicit focus of most studies, however, has been the works of Afro-Hispanics, while in most instances literature by Brazilians of African descent has been treated only marginally, if at all. This study delineates the factors which have caused literature by Afro-Brazilian authors to remain at the fringes of Afro-Latin American studies in the U.S. and presents an important corpus of literature written by Brazilians of African descent and published since 1960. The study of these works should not only ameliorate the general approach to Afro-Latin American literature current in the U.S. but should at the same time add a new dimension to the field of African diaspora studies as well.
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Gwekwerere, Tavengwa. "The African Diaspora in continental African struggles for freedom: Implications on the criticism of African Renaissance literature." South African Journal of African Languages 34, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 35–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2014.949466.
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Gikandi, Simon. "Paule Marshall and the search for the African diaspora." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 73, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1999): 83–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002586.
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[First paragraph]The Fiction of Paule Marshall: Reconstructions of History, Culture, and Gender. DOROTHY HAMER DENNISTON. Knoxville: University of Tennesee Press, 1995. xxii + 187 pp. (Paper US$ 15.00)Toward Wholeness in Paule Marshall's Fiction. JOYCE PETTIS.Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1995. xi + 173 pp. (Cloth US$ 29.50)Black and Female: Essays on Writings by Black Women in the Diaspora. BRITA LINDBERG-SEYERSTED. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1994. 164 pp. (Paper n.p.)Literary history has not been very kind to Paule Marshall. Even in the early 1980s when literature produced by African-American women was gaining prominence among general readers and drawing the attention of critics, Marshall was still considered to be an enigmatic literary figure, somehow important in the canon but not one of its trend setters. As Mary Helen Washington observed in an influential afterword to Brown Girl, Brownstones, although Marshall had been publishing novels and short stories since the early 1950s, and was indeed the key link between African-American writers of the 1940s and those of the 1960s, she was just being "discovered" in the 1980s. While there has always been a small group of scholars, most notably Kamau Brathwaite, who have called attention to the indispensable role Marshall has played in the shaping of the literary canon of the African Diaspora, and of her profound understanding of the issues that have affected the complex formation and survival of African-derived cultures in the New World, many critics have found it difficult to locate her within the American, African-American, and Caribbean traditions that are the sources of her imagination and the subject of her major works. Marshall has embraced all these cultures in more profound ways than her more famous contemporaries have, but she has not gotten the accolades that have gone to lesser writers like Alice Walker. It is indeed one of the greatest injustices of our time that Walker's limited understanding of the cultures and peoples of the African Diaspora has become the point of reference for North American scholars of Africa, the Caribbean, and South America while Marshall's scholastic engagement with questions of Diaspora has not drawn the same kind of interest.