Historiographical Examination of the African Diaspora

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject African Studies - African diaspora, grade: A, University of Education (University of Education Winneba), language: English, abstract: This essay analyses the historiography of the African Diaspora with regards to its conceptualization, time and space of its emergence. It seeks to examine various selected historical works on the history of the African Diaspora with the aim of providing a meaningful analysis of the trend of historians' interpretations of the concept. It pays much attention on the historical production about the Black Atlantic Diaspora that predominantly emerged out of the Atlantic interaction of Euro-America with Africa during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST). The essay however, shares common concerns with historiographies of other African Diasporic streams in general.