African diaspora
African diaspora (English people of African heritage ) refers to the totality of people of African, especially sub-Saharan origin who live geographically distant from the "mother continent" Africa .
The diaspora includes Afro-Americans in North America (including Afro-Canadians ), the Caribbean and South America, as well as descendants of African migrants in Europe (such as Afro-Germans or Afro-Austrians ), in Asia and the rest of the world. The main part of the African diaspora arose from the transatlantic slave trade with the largest population in Brazil today ( Afro-Brazilian). Due to the particularly high proportion of people in Brazil who are descended from both Europeans and Africans, only very few people of African descent see themselves as part of an African diaspora in Brazil, but rather emphasize their own identity that emerged from a mixture of cultures .
African diaspora generally describes the common cultural heritage of these people or communities, their African roots or identity and corresponds to an Afrocentric worldview. The African Union has defined it as “consisting of people of African origin who, regardless of their citizenship and nationality, live outside the continent and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union”.
Some representatives of Pan-Africanism see certain indigenous communities in the Malay Peninsula , New Guinea , India , Melanesia and Micronesia as members of the African diaspora.
See also
- Afro-Colombian (Colombia)
- Afro- Ecuadorians (Ecuador)
- Afrikanet
- Afrotak TV cyberNomads
- African churches in Europe
- East African slave trade
- Afro-Iranians
Web links
- Dossier of the Federal Agency for Civic Education on the African Diaspora in Germany
- The African Diaspora Network , last updated December 7, 2006, engl.
- African Diaspora , Columbia University , City of New York , engl.
- Afrika-NRW.net - Internet platform for all Africa actors in NRW
- AFROTAK TV cyberNomads - The black German media culture education archive Africa Germany
- African Union African Diaspora 6th Region Germany - Information
Individual evidence
- ^ Dossier: African Diaspora in Germany. Federal Agency for Civic Education , undated, accessed on May 6, 2019.
- ^ African Union : Report of the meeting of experts from member states on the definition of the African Diaspora. Addis Ababa , 11./12. April 2005 (English; DOC: 69 kB ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )).