Introduction Dance in the African Diaspora is also known as African Vernacular Dance and they are considered to be dances that have been developed by Africans living in Diaspora such as the Africans living in America and Europe. The unique thing about these dances is that they are performed day to day activities rather than being performed in studios and theaters. These dances are usually focused on social aspects and can be performed in any place to show the need for social change especially to racism and general issues. They are mainly focused on social dancing. Since they are based on improvisation, these dances are identified by the concentration of the change that is going on in the world and also development on various issues in the world (Hazzard-Gordon, 1985). It is important to note that these dances are performed not of other courses but for self expression primarily. This means that these dances are not performed for such issues like economical gain but to express the community’s feeling towards various issues that concern them. They have been developing over the years and now they range from reggae to hip-hop and all this dances are concerned with social issues that have been plaguing their communities from time to time in history (Friedland, 1995). History of African Diaspora dance Most of the Africans living in Diaspora were brought to their current living places due to slavery. Most of these Africans landed in the American continent and this explains the huge presence of people with African origin in North America, South America and Central America. These people were drawn from various ethnic groups and their cultural backgrounds and cultural practices were diverse but very similar. However, the era of slavery led them to be united and they came up together to form various artistic things together. One of these things was to compose songs and dance to their songs. Most of these songs were focused on the hardships of being a slave in a foreign land where they did not belong at all. It is important to note that the slaves’ cultural lives were controlled by the slave owners and they could not practice the cultural practices they were used to in their own lands (DeFrantz, 2002). The slave owners forbid several slave cultures and hence the African were restricted on various social and cultural practices and this saw them feeling inferior and dominated by the slave owners. The slave owners did this because of various issues including religion, social and simply cruelty reasons. This led them to compose songs that were intended to express their slavery conditions and also give them hope for a better future. These songs also gave them a platform for expressing their feeling and how they hoped they would be treated by their slave owners. They also expressed their wishes for equality, especially since they were treated as inferiors by the society in which they slaved for (Hazzard-Gordon, 1985). The cultures of the slaves being restricted were influenced by the cultures of the slave owners. This means that the slaves either adopted a new culture or their culture blended with the slave owners’ cultures. This led to the slaves being capable of producing hybrid forms of music and dance. New cultures developed i