African Digital Diasporas: Technologies, Tactics, and Trends

1Africans and DiasporaDiasporas have a long history. The essence of diaspora is some form of displacement coupled with relations of belonging and identification that link members of a diaspora to each other and to a shared origin (Braziel and Mannur 2007). In the case of African diasporas, their long history stems largely from the European enslavement and transport of Africans from the continent to the Americas. The term 'African diaspora', therefore, has generally been understood to refer to the well-established populations of African descent in the Western hemisphere whose ties to particular places, communities, or institutions on the