Historiography

Africana or African Diaspora?

Personally, I lean toward “African Diaspora” because as fraught as the term “Diaspora” may be (Which diaspora? Whose diaspora?), I still feel that it is a term with more “historicity” if you will. Diaspora implies a going, and a coming, and perhaps a return. It expresses a defining fact of our collective existence in the West. We were brought here,…

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