African diaspora

The term African Diaspora ( engl.: "People of African Heritage " ) is the sum of living geographically distant from mainland Africa People of African descent.

These include African American (or African Canadians ) in North America, the Caribbean and South America as well as descendants of African migrants in Europe (eg Afro German ), Asia and the rest of the world. The majority of the African Diaspora was here by the transatlantic slave trade with the largest population according to today in Brazil ( Afro-Brazilians ). Due to the particularly high in Brazil population proportion of people who are descended from both Europeans and Africans, but very few people of African descent see for yourself just in Brazil rather own that emerged as part of the African Diaspora, but stress from a mixture of cultures identity.

The term generally refers to the common cultural heritage of these people / communities, their African roots and identity and corresponds to an Afrocentric worldview.

Some representatives of Pan-Africanism see in particular indigenous communities of the Malay Peninsula, New Guinea, India, Melanesia and Micronesia members of the African diaspora.

The African Union has defined them as " consisting of people of African origin, that of their citizenship and nationality life as if nothing outside the continent and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union. "