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African Diasporas: Toward a Global History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
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This article interrogates the development of African diaspora studies. Based a global research project that seeks to map out the dispersals of African peoples in all the major regions of the world, compare the processes of diasporization, and examine the patterns of diaspora engagements, it offers a vigorous critique of the hegemonous Afro-Atlantic model in African diaspora studies. It focuses on two critical challenges that students of African diasporas must confront: the terms of analysis that are adopted, and the problems of historical mapping.

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African Studies Review , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , April 2010 , pp. 1 - 19
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2010

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