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The Ties That Bind: The Historic African Diaspora and Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

Cassandra R. Veney
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As we all know, the historic African diaspora in the United States is the result of the European slave trade, which resulted in millions of people being taken from Africa. Dei and Asgharzadeh correctly point out in this issue that this population and its descendents constitute a portion of the original African brain drain. Often, consideration of the causes of, problems of, and solutions to the African brain drain ignore this population and place most of the emphasis and research on the contemporary African diaspora. This may have to do with conclusions in some of the research contending that this historic diaspora lost all linkages to Africa. However, there is a vast body of literature that supports the claim that the institution of slavery did not totally sever social, cultural, economic, and political linkages.

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Part I: Historic and Contemporary African Diasporas
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African Issues , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 2002 , pp. 3 - 8
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2002 

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