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African Stream has been active on the social media platforms TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, Meta, and X (formerly Twitter). [3] [4] YouTube and Meta banned African Stream in September 2024, in addition to the Russian state media outlet RT, following allegations from the United States State Department that African Stream is secretly managed by RT as part of a broader covert Russian government ...
The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa. [48] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries, with their largest populations in the United States, Brazil, Colombia and Haiti.
The program also recognizes the diaspora's achievements and sacrifices in the time since that event. [4] [5] Starting from when President Barack Obama made a visit to the Cape Coast in 2009, many famous, respected and admired African-Americans from the diaspora have visited Ghana to discover its culture. [6]
When President Leon Mba of Gabon was toppled by the military in 1964, then-French President Charles de Gaulle sprang into action and immediately sent French troops to restore Mba to power.
Combined with African countries which are now seeking to gain skilled and educated migrants, a growing movement has been formed, with the Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo declared that 2019 was the "Year of Return" and in accordance with his declaration, he made immigration to Ghana easier for members of African diaspora communities. [1]
In 2015, at the African Union Summit - Chihombori-Quao received the "Women of Excellence Award". [13] Arikana Chihombori-Quao: My mandate is to promote Africa in the Americas and more importantly, to mobilise the African diaspora - meaning all people of African descent living outside of Africa.
International Women's Strike 2018, Buenos Aires. The International Day of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women, [1] shortly known as B.L.A.C Women's Day, also known as the International Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women's Day [2] and International Afro-descendant Women's Day (Spanish: Día Internacional de la Mujer Afrodescendiente), [3] is linked to Afrofeminism ...
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.