Reconnection across the world

Diaspora Bridge

Histories of movement, displacement and connection between Africa and its global diaspora, and the cultures that travelled with them.

These pages explore shared histories and connections between communities. They cannot, and do not, determine any individual’s ancestry or ethnic identity.

Migration narrativeIsland of GoréeA small island off Dakar that has become a worldwide place of memory of the Atlantic slave trade.
Migration narrativeValongo Wharf, Rio de JaneiroThe stone wharf where an estimated 900,000 enslaved Africans were landed in Brazil, rediscovered in 2011.
Cultural connectionThe African Union and the diasporaHow the African Union defines the African diaspora, and why it invites the diaspora to help build the Union.
Cultural connectionGullah Geechee heritageDescendants of West and Central Africans on the south-eastern coast of the United States who kept many African traditions alive.
Cultural connectionGhana’s Year of Return, 2019Ghana invited the African diaspora home in 2019, 400 years after enslaved Africans reached Virginia in 1619.