After years of marginalization, the bèlè dance has been embraced by a growing community who see it as a form of social and spiritual healing.
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The US has about 40 centres that focus on African studies. Africa has only three looking the other way.
Mzilikazi Khumalo was a brilliant linguist with a stellar career in music. These achievements are extraordinary considering the obstacles he faced throughout his career.
Witnessing their children’s experiences of racism was particularly difficult, parents reported.
Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
Both Black Panther and Beyoncé’s Black is King represent a utopian vision of empowerment and connection to Africa.
In football, a number of African teams draw heavily on their European-born diasporas, a reflection of a colonial past and deeply entrenched migration routes.
The composer, performer and poet was an artistic pioneer of lasting and distinctive gifts, and bottomless stamina. He gave us over 70 years of high-octane Somali musical mastery.
Through their exposure to new trends in knowledge production, African academics in the diaspora can contribute to equipping African students for the global economy.
The survival resource of the world’s most vulnerable people – their social networks – may become compromised
It’s hailed as one of the greatest works of fiction to emerge from Africa. But Things Fall Apart was written in English, sparking debate about the colonisation of language.
It is important to understand that African diaspora constitute complex and multiplicitous identities.
Many scholars argue that attracting migrants is essential to economic competitiveness in a globalising world.
In the era of neoliberal capitalism, both the ideology of Pan-Africanism and the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade have become marketable commodities.
The world’s best known talk show host has become the president-elect of the most powerful country in the world. Trump running the US is unlikely to be good news for Africa.
African academics living in the diaspora have access to resources that can really help their peers working on the continent.
Natural hair has become a political rallying point for women across the African diaspora. For these women, wearing natural hair is way to resist Eurocentric norms and “post-racial” political thought.
At what point is the movement of people away from their land of origin called a diaspora? A sociologist explores what the term has meant in the past, and why that might soon change.
Its critics complain that current Afrodiasporic literature is not in tune with everyday life on the continent. They see its versions of Africa as sanitised and Westernised.
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Research Associate in Digital Sociology, Adelaide University ; Monash University
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Adjunct professor, Southern Cross University
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Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Southern University
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Professor of Sociology and African American & African Studies, Michigan State University
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer in Cultural Competency, King's College London
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of History, Deakin University
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Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Geography, Delaware State University
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Poet and lecturer in Creative Writing, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Emory University
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Research Associate, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand