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The Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) is an annual film festival held in California to promote an understanding and appreciation of Africa and Africans through moving images. [1] Nigerian filmmaker Chike Nwoffiah founded the SVAFF in 2010 and has served as its director since. [ 2 ]
Her concept of Diaspora literacy is viewed by many as seminal in the areas of Diasporic literature, dance, and African Studies. In 2011, the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley launched the VèVè Clark Institute for Engaged Scholars. The program works to prepare a cadre of African Studies majors in the discipline for graduate ...
The African Union defined the African diaspora as "[consisting] of people of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union." Its constitutive act declares that it shall "invite and ...
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the first members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement, including actor Viola Davis, who will advise Washington on ...
WikiProject African diaspora aims to improve all articles related to the cultural contributions of people of African descent all over the world. The African diaspora is the story of how Africans, though scattered and dispersed, managed to preserve cultural traditions while, at the same time, creating new identities influenced by new homelands in places outside Africa.
The African-American diaspora refers to communities of people of African descent who previously lived in the United States. These people were mainly descended from formerly enslaved African persons in the United States or its preceding European colonies in North America that had been brought to America via the Atlantic slave trade and had suffered in slavery until the American Civil War.
He founded the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora and was its director from 2000 to 2007. [1] From 2017 he was also Silver Professor at New York University, taking up the position of director of the university's Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora in 2018. [1]
The Museum of the African Diaspora, which opened in 2005 at Yerba Buena Gardens, documents the history, art and culture of the African Diaspora. [74] The African American Art and Culture Complex on Fulton Street in the Fillmore District hosts workshops, art events and the city's Juneteenth Festival.