Introduction Colonialism is the maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural domination over people by a foreign power for an extended period( W. Bell,1991). Independence is when a country is politically free from the control of the government of another country. This paper argues that...
The Article titled “Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World” is a vibrant piece written by Tiffany Patterson and Robin D.G. Kelley. Throughout the piece these authors take time to break down the history and true meaning of...
The Atlantic slave trade’s beginning could be traced back to when the Portuguese, who by 1520 were exporting gold from West Africa, tapped into West African labor, specifically the indigenous population of the Canaries, the Guanches and enslaved them in both Madeira and the Mediterranean...
Literature of diaspora as a postcolonial discourse addresses issues such as home, nostalgia, formation of identity and to the interaction between people in diaspora and the host society, the center and the margin. Sufran believes that ‘diaspora’ is used as a ‘metaphoric designation’ to describe...
“The construction of new identities become both an inevitable consequence and a necessary task” (Gillespie). The concept of Diaspora describes groups of people who currently live or reside outside their countries of origin. The communities of the African diaspora identify and have a connection with...
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Introduction The African culture has a rich history by itself. It is allegedly said by anthropologists, who found fossils in African in the mid-20th century, that the first Africans lived around seven million years ago. The Africans passed their beliefs through music and poetry, oral,...
In 1917, after WWI the former US President Woodrow Wilson argued in his Fourteen Points principles’ statement: “A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims” became an inspiration for renewed Pan-Africanist movements. The end of the war led to a new era...
Introduction As a representative of the first generation of the Nigerian-Canadian diaspora, I had a specific experience regarding dance art. In particular, this experience was expressed in the perception of dances as a set of energetic and dynamic movements of the human body that can...
Diaspora the term has been derived from the Greek word " διασπείρω" which means "I sacatter". Peoples leave their land for other land, region or country for various reasons known as diaspora. Oxford learners dictionary defines the term diaspora as, "The diaspora the movement of...