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Africanity, Identity and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Ibrahim K. Sundiata
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What is the meaning of the term “African Diaspora” and what is its extent? What is its future? Although the term has long been used for the scattered daughters and sons of Africa in the Americas, little attention has been devoted to delimiting its boundaries. From the fifteenth century onward, over ten million forced migrants left the African continent to people both of the Americas and the islands of the Caribbean. Their culture was never static; it involved syncretistic reformation, subsumption/transmogrification and reintegration/reassertion.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , 1996 , pp. 13 - 17
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1996 

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Professor Ibrahim K. Sundiata is Beinfield Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University and department chair. His latest work is Between Slaving and Neoslavery (Wisconsin, 1996). Professor Sundiata is currently preparing a work on the creation and conceptualization of Diasporas.

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