African diaspora
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The African diaspora or Afro diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and culture of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia. The majority of the African diaspora is descended from people taken into slavery, with the largest population living in Brazil. In recent years, they include a rising number of voluntary emigrants and asylum-seekers as well.
More broadly, the African diaspora comprises the indigenous peoples of Africa and their descendants, wherever they are in the world. Pan-Africanists often also consider other Negroid (or "Africoid") peoples as diasporic "African peoples." These groups include the Malay Peninsula (Orang Asli),[link], New Guinea,[link] certain peoples of the Indian subcontinent,[link],[link] and the aboriginal peoples of Melanesia and Micronesia.[link]
The African Union has defined the African diaspora as "[consisting] of people of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union." Its constitutive act declares that it shall "invite and encourage the full participation of the African Diaspora as an important part of our Continent, in the building of the African Union."
See also
- Black people
- History of Africa
- African American
- British Afro-Caribbean community
- French Afro-Caribbean community
- African-Canadian
- Afro-Latin American
- Afro-Brazilian
- Black people in Ireland
External links
- ["African Diaspora", a resource list, Columbia Universities, African Studies]
- ["The Blacks of East Bengal: A Native's Perspective," by Horen Tudu]
- ["Negrito and Negrillo", by M. Stewart]
- ["Pan-Africanism in South Asia," by Horen Tudu]
- [Report of the Meeting of Experts from Member States on the Definition of the African Diaspora, African Union, April 2005]
- ["West Papua New Guinea: Interview with Foreign Minister Ben Tanggahma"]
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