African Diaspora

Running Head : The African Diaspora

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Introduction

The African Diaspora refers to tales of how Africans , although dispersed , managed to keep hold of their cultures , traditions and ways as they reform in identities conforming to a new world . For a period longer than four centuries , about four million Africans were captured taken away from their homes and shipped to the Caribbean Islands and North America to work as slaves

The change of location and lives motivated the need for African culture and

ways to be upheld in the new home away from home . Despite this separation from their tribes , cultures and people , Africans living in Diaspora managed to maintain different aspects of their culture including language , religion , and folklore which they linked to their past . The Americanization process saw the Africans form a new culture called Afro-Americans also known as Creoles . Permanent ties between Africa and North America were created by the Trans Atlantic slave trade having being the biggest in the world . Africans from all over the African continent especially the coastal regions were relocated to different parts of North America . The Bantus of the coast of Guinea followed by the Mande had the biggest cultural homogeneity . This made the African-American culture experience a great influence in the Diaspora by the many people coming from these regions

Culture Maintained

Afro-American culture differed from one region to another . However religion was the only homogeneous aspect amongst most of the regions Christianity is a good example of...