The topic of Diaspora is an interesting one, specifically in the way Colin A. Palmer breaks it down. He argues that there are five major African diasporas and how the earliest one began 100,000 years ago and the most recent one is still happening. What this suggests, is that people are continually moving voluntarily and involuntarily over periods of time for many different reasons. Furthermore, his belief that \u201cdiasporas are not actual but imaginary and symbolic communities and political constructs (29)\u201d is again something I had never really thought about. This makes the concept of diaspora abstract and moves it away from its physical and geographical definition, forcing people to think of it as something that is more philosophical and deeper in meaning. Bah\u2019s reading was also one that took me by surprise in that I did not know that in other parts of Africa and not just in Egypt, there was a type of \u2018slavery\u2019\/ servitude happening before the Trans- Atlantic slave trade came into being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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