# African diaspora

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**African diaspora** ŋɔ nyɛla dunia zaa dabba ban nyɛ gbaŋsabila ni be tiŋgbani shɛŋa. Lala yuli ŋɔ nyɛla din zani n-ti bilichininima zaŋ n-ti West mini Central Africans dabba shɛba bɛ ni daa gbahi labisi ka di nyɛ Atlantic slave trade bin din gbaai 16th zaŋ hali ni 19th centuries, ka bɛ kalinli nyɛ din galisi Brazil, United States, Colombia, n-ti pahi Haiti. Lala yuli ŋɔ gba nyɛla din ni tooi zani n-ti gbansabila bilichininima ban yi labi tiŋgbani shɛŋa dabam dunia ŋɔ ni. Baŋdiba nyɛla ban pu lala chani ŋɔ bunahi zuɣu zaŋ n-ti gbaŋsabila tiŋgbana.

Yɛltɔɣili din nyɛ *African diaspora* nyɛla bɛ ni daa piligi shɛli bolibu bee zaŋ tum tuma 21st century. Yɛltɔɣili din nyɛ "*diaspora" nyɛla din yina* Greek διασπορά (*diaspora*, "scattering") ka di Silimiinsili nya naba zani di ni daa niŋ ka bɛ nya di kundivihirili Jewish diaspora pɔi ka bɛ naayi piligi di zaŋ tum tuma luɣ'shɛŋa din pahi ni. Saha ŋɔ, lala yɛltɔɣili ŋɔ nyɛla bɛ ni tooi mali shɛli tumdi tuma "scholarship" ni ka di gbunni nyɛ ninvuɣ shɛba ban yi gbaŋsabila tiŋgbana ni kpɛ gbaŋpiɛlla tiŋgbani.

African Union (AU) nyɛla ban yɛlli ni African diaspora nyɛla bilichininima zaŋ n-ti gbaŋsabila bee ban tabi gbaŋsabila nyɛ ban yi bɛ tiŋgbana ni labi gbaŋpiɛlla tiŋgbana ni ka nyɛ ban mali niya ni bɛ sɔŋ lala tiŋgbani maa tooni chandi mini African Uniontabi sɔŋ .

## History

18th-century painting showing a family of Africans
### Dispersal through slave trade

Gbaŋsabila pam nyɛla ban be North America, South America, Europe, ni Asia saha shɛli Atlantic, Trans-Saharan, Red Sea n-ti pahi Indian Ocean dabba daabiligu ni daa be ni.

Aithiopian dabba nyɛla ban daa tooi tumdi yiŋ tuma mini diɛma tuma.

### Dispersal through voluntary migration

Tum Spanish dabba gbahibu kpɛhi America, gbaŋsabila nyɛla ban tooi kpɛri gbaŋpiɛlla tiŋgbana ŋɔ ni bɛ suhi yurilim mini yaa zaŋ gbahi ba kpɛhi ka bɛ nyɛ dabba. Juan Garrido daa nyɛla African conquistador. O nyɛla ŋun daa gari Atlantic yuuni 1510s ka nyɛ ŋun daa be siege of Tenochtitlan. Gbaŋsabila nyɛla ban daa pun be Asia mini Europe saha waɣala pɔi ka Columbus's chandi daa naayi piligi. 20th century naabu ni, gbaŋsabila nyɛla ban piligi Europe kpɛbu ka bɛ kalinli nyɛ din daa kuli pahiri America.

20th-century American philosopher and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois wrote extensively on the black experience in his homeland and abroad; he spent the last two years of his life in the newly independent Ghana and got citizenship there.
## Populations and estimated distribution

African diaspora kalinli nyɛ din doli na ŋɔ:

* African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Latin Americans, Black Canadians –dabba ŋɔ nyɛla ban daa tooi yirina West mini Central Africans ka bɛ daa leei tooi zaŋdi ba na United States, Caribbean, Central America n-ti pahi South America saha shɛli Atlantic slave trade ni daa be ni.
* Afro-Arabs (Afro-Saudis, Afro-Omanis, Afro-Syrians, Afro-Palestinians, Afro-Iraqis, Afro-Jordanians, .), Afro-Iranians, Afro-Turks – bilichininima zaŋ n-ti Zanj dabba nyɛla bɛ ni daa zaŋ shɛba na Near East mini Asia yaɣa shɛŋa saha shɛli Indian Ocean slave trade ni daa be ni.
* Siddis – bilichininima zaŋ n-ti Zanj dabba nyɛla nyɛla bɛ ni daa zaŋ shɛba na Indian subcontinent (Pakistan mini India). ka bɛ lahi booni li Makrani din be Pakistan.

| Continent or region | Country population | Afro-descendants |  African and African-mixed population |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caribbean | 41,309,327 | 67% | 27,654,061 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Saint Kitts and Nevis | 39,619 | 98% | 38,827 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Dominica | 71,293 | 96% (87% African + 9% Mixed) | 61,882 + 9,411 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Haiti | 10,646,714 | 95% | 10,114,378 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Antigua and Barbuda | 78,000 | 95% | 63,000 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Jamaica | 2,812,090 | 92.1% | 2,663,614 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Grenada | 110,000 | 91% | 101,309 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data The Bahamas | 332,634 | 90.6% (African + British mixed) | 301,366 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Barbados | 281,968 | 90% | 253,771 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Netherlands Antilles | 225,369 | 85% | 191,564 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 118,432 | 85% | 100,667 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data British Virgin Islands | 24,004 | 83% | 19,923 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Saint Lucia | 172,884 | 83% | 142,629 |
|  Dominican Republic | 10,090,000 | 83% (11% Afro, 72% Mixed) | 1,109,900 + 8,000,000 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data US Virgin Islands | 108,210 | 80% | 86,243 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Bermuda | 66,536 | 61% | 40,720 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Cayman Islands | 47,862 | 60% | 28,717 |
|  Cuba | 11,116,396 | 35% | 3,890,738 |
|  Trinidad and Tobago | 1,215,527 | 34.2% | 415,710 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Puerto Rico | 3,285,874 | 17.5% (African + Taino mixed) | 558,598 |
| South America | 388,570,461 | N/A | N/A |
|  French Guiana | 199,509 | 66% | 131,676 |
|  Suriname | 632,638 | 37% | 223,718 |
|  Guyana | 770,794 | 36% | 277,486 |
|  Colombia | 53,093,632 | 10.6–25% (10% African, 15% Mulattoes, Mixed and other groups) | 7,800,000–13,000,000; Some studies (from the United Nations) suggests that the percentage of Afro-Colombians (including mixed race groups) are around 25% or lower than the entire population in Colombia. The city of Quibdo, (Chocó) has the highest percentage of Afro-Colombians than any other city in the country with 95.3% of its residents. The Colombian government estimates that 10.6% of Colombia's population are entirely of African descent. |
|  Brazil | 213,650,000 | 55.5% | 117,983,981 |
|  Ecuador | 13,927,650 | 5% | 680,000 |
|  Uruguay | 3,494,382 | 4% | 255,074 |
|  Venezuela | 27,227,930 | 3% (African) | 1,087,427 |
|  Peru | 29,496,000 | 3% | 828,841 |
|  Chile | 17,094,270 | 1% | 170,943\* |
|  Argentina | 46,044,703 | <1% | 302,936 |
|  Bolivia | 10,027,254 | <1% | 23,330 |
|  Paraguay | 6,109,903 | <1% | 8,013 |
| North America | 450,545,368 | 10% | 42,907,538 |
|  United States | 328,745,538 | 12% | 42,020,743 According to the genomics company 23andMe, less than 4% of White Americans have 1% or more of African ancestry. Including this figure changes the total to **49,241,508** |
|  Canada | 39,566,248 | 4% | 1,547,870 |
|  Mexico | 108,700,891 | 1% | 1,386,556 |
| Central America | 41,283,652 | 4% | 1,453,761 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Belize | 301,270 | 31% | 93,394 |
|  Panama | 3,292,693 | 11% | 362,196 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Nicaragua | 5,785,846 | 9% | 520,726 |
|  Costa Rica | 4,195,914 | 3% | 125,877 |
| [[File:|23x15px|border |alt=|link=]] Honduras | 7,639,327 | 2% | 152,787 |
| Europe | 738,856,462 | 1% | < 8,000,000 |
|  France | 68,000,000 | 8% | Approximately 3–5 millions.
It is illegal for the French State to collect data on ethnicity and race. |
|  Portugal | 10,467,366 | 7% | 645,000 (People with recent immigrant background are only 325,000 (2023)) It is illegal for the Portuguese State to collect data on ethnicity and race. the percentage is likely much higher. |
|  United Kingdom | 67,886,004 | 5% (inc. partial) | 3,000,000 |
|  Netherlands | 16,491,461 | 3% | - |
|  Belgium | 10,666,866 | 3% | ~300,000 |
|  Spain | 47,615,033 | 2,5% (including Maghrebis) | 1,206,701 (Of those ~300,000 are Black Sub-Saharan African) |
|  Sweden | 10,379,295 (2020) | 2.3% | 236,975 (2020) |
|  Italy | 60,795,612 | 2% (including Maghrebis) | 1,036,653 (Of those ~450,000 are Black Sub-Saharan African) |
|  Ireland | 4,339,000 | 1.38% | 64,639 |
|  Germany | 82,000,000 | 1.2% (including Maghrebis) | 1,000,000 (Of those ~500,000 are Black Sub-Saharan African) |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Finland | 5,603,851 (2023) | 1.26% | 70,592 (2023)​ |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Norway | 4,858,199 | 1% | 67,000 |
|  Switzerland | 7,790,000 | 1% | 57,000 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Russia | 141,594,000 | <1% | 50,000 |
| Asia | 3,879,000,000 | <1% | ≈327,904 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Israel | 7,411,000 | 3% | 200,000 |
|  India | 1,132,446,000 | <1% | 40,000 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Malaysia | 28,334,135 | <1% | 31,904 |
| Tɛmplet:Country data Hong Kong | 7,200,000 | <1% | < 20,000 |
|  China | 1,321,851,888 | <1% | 16,000 |
|  Japan | 127,756,815 | <1% | 10,000 |

## The Americas

Map of the Black African population in the Americas (1901).
* African Americans – Salo ban kalinli yiɣisi kamani 43 million nyɛla gbaŋsabila ban be United States.
* Afro-Latin Americans – Lahabali din yina Pew Research Center calculates wuhiya ni kalinli din yiɣisi 100  million nyɛla ban yi gbaŋsabila tiŋgbana ni na be Latin America. Di kpa talahi ni a baŋ ni, dabba tali daabiligu din be US ŋɔ nyɛla di ni tooi be di koŋko ka che tiŋgbani shɛŋa ban gba dari dabba. Yaha, sizeable African bilichininima nyɛla ban beCuba, Haiti, Colombia n-ti pahi Dominican Republic.
* Afro-Caribbeans – Salo ban be Caribbean kalinli nyɛla din yiɣisi kamani 23 million. Kalinli zaŋ n-ti gbaŋsabila bilichini ban nyɛ dabba ka be Haiti – 8 million, Dominican Republic – 7.9 million n-ti pahi Jamaica – 2.7 million,

### France

Salo ban kalinli yiɣisi kamani miliyɔŋ dibaa ata zaŋ ni miliyɔŋ dibaa anu nyɛla African dabba, amaa dibaa anahi puuni kalinli zaɣ'yini nyɛla Afro-French kalinli. Lala kalinli ŋɔ nyɛla din baŋbu niŋdi tɔm pam saha shɛŋa dama French "census" nyɛla din bi mali tumdi tuma.

### Germany

Bin din gbaai yuuni 2020, kalinli din yiɣisi kamani 1,000,000 nyɛla Afro-Germans. Lala kalinli ŋɔ nyɛla din baŋbu niŋdi tɔm pam saha shɛŋa dama German "census" nyɛla din bi mali tumdi tuma.

### Spain

Bin din gbaai yuuni 2021, salo kalinli din yiɣisi 1,206,701 daa nyɛla gbaŋsabila ban be Andalusia, Catalonia, Madrid n-ti pahi Canaries.

## Lihimi m-pahi

* African apologies for the Atlantic slave trade
* Africanisms
* African Australians
* *African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter*
* African immigration to Europe
* Afro-Latin Americans
* African diaspora religions
* Black-brown unity
* Blaxit
* Emigration from Africa
* Genetic history of the African diaspora
* List of topics related to the African diaspora

## Kundivihira

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* Arthur, John A. (2008). *The African Diaspora in the United States and Europe: the Ghanaian experience*. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-4841-3.
* Boyce Davies, Carole (2008). *Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: origins, experiences and culture, Volume 1*. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-700-5.
* Carter, Donald Martin (2010). *Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility*. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4777-4.
* Conyers, James L. Jr. (2009). *Racial Structure and Radical Politics in the African Diaspora*. London: Transaction. ISBN 978-1-4128-1045-6.
* Curry, Dawne Y.; Duke, Eric D.; Smith, Marshanda A. (2009). *Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People*. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03459-6.
* Hine, Darlene Clark; Danielle Keaton, Trica; Small, Stephen (2009). *Black Europe and the African Diaspora*. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07657-2.
* (January 1, 2010) "African Diaspora in India". *Diaspora Studies* **3** (1): 69–91. DOI:10.1080/09739572.2010.10597342.
* Okpewho, Isidore; Nzegwu, Nkiru (2009). *The New African Diaspora*. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35337-5..
* Olaniyan, Tejumola; Sweet, James H (2010). *The African Diaspora and the Disciplines*. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35464-8.
* Olliz-Boyd, Antonio (2010). *The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context*. Cambria Press. ISBN 978-1-60497-704-2.
* Wisdom, Tettey; Puplampu, Korbla P. (2005). *The African Diaspora in Canada: negotiating identity & belonging*. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-175-5.

* "The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World" Archived Silimin gɔli October 19, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Omar H. Ali, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
* The History of Black People in Britain
* "Museum of the African Diaspora", Online exhibits and other resources from the San Francisco-based museum.
* The African Diaspora Policy Centre (ADPC)

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