The African Union and the diaspora
How the African Union defines the African diaspora, and why it invites the diaspora to help build the Union.
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Island of Gorée
A small island off Dakar that has become a worldwide place of memory of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Valongo Wharf, Rio de Janeiro
The stone wharf where an estimated 900,000 enslaved Africans were landed in Brazil, rediscovered in 2011.
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Gullah Geechee heritage
Descendants of West and Central Africans on the south-eastern coast of the United States who kept many African traditions alive.
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Ghana’s Year of Return, 2019
Ghana invited the African diaspora home in 2019, 400 years after enslaved Africans reached Virginia in 1619.