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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.

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Peoples of the African Diaspora

Current Goals

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2023-05-10

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : African Americans in film, List of black college football classics (This task is not to create the list but to create the articles that are linked on the list), Circle For Negro War Relief
Cleanup : African aesthetic, Afro-American music, Black flight,Afro-Caribbean music
Expand : Historically black colleges and universities, Islam in the African diaspora, Ring shout, Ethnic enclave, List of African-American inventors and scientists, Afro-Caribbean music, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
NPOV : Reparations for slavery, African Publishers Network, Crown Heights Riot
Stubs : Category:African diaspora stubs, Category:African history stubs, Category:Africa stubs, Category:African American stubs
Verify : African American, Molefi Kete Asante
Other : Upkeep of the African Diaspora project page, Article Assessments

Missing articles

Wikidata generated lists

These lists are auto-generate lists that include potential Wikipedia articles related to this WikiProject, which have articles on other Wikipedias:

Article Assessments

Project Afro assessments needs your help. You can:

Assess articles (it's ok if you're not 100% sure about where you place an article.)
Work on top importance articles first (especially the ones that aren't at least B class)
Expand African Americans in Davenport, Iowa. Suggestions are welcome regarding what should be included.

African diaspora articles by quality and importance
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Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	10	8	15	15		5	53
FL			2	3		1	6
A				2			2
GA	26	24	51	95		37	233
B	136	138	188	495		266	1,223
C	210	205	446	2,123	2	1,261	4,247
Start	265	169	497	4,243	14	3,128	8,316
Stub	29	75	95	1,431	5	1,639	3,274
List	1	8	30	121	2	129	291
Category				4	3,681		3,685
Disambig				1	12		13
File				1	85		86
Project					14		14
Redirect		8	8	48	242		306
Template		2		1	132		135
NA		1	1	7	6		15
Other		1			84		85
Assessed	677	639	1,333	8,590	4,279	6,466	21,984
Total	677	639	1,333	8,590	4,279	6,466	21,984
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 82,367			Ω = 4.75

Deletion discussions

All deletion discussions relevant to this wikiproject will be held at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Ethnic groups or Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Africa

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Featured lists

Good articles

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Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Picture of the day pictures

"Capt. Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps, who now heads the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, CA - NARA - 535942
1899 poster of Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones
African man portrait Mostaert
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa - Black girl - MP 5531 - National Museum in Warsaw
Art Tatum, Vogue Room 1948 (Gottlieb)
Barack Obama family portrait 2011
Bessie Coleman in 1923
Big White Fog
Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895
Cabinet Card of Sojourner Truth - Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Cardiss Collins - Restoration
Carl Van Vechten - Shirley Graham Du Bois
Cicatrices de flagellation sur un esclave
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.) - NARA - 542015 - Restoration
Don Lemon at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Edmonia Lewis by Henry Rocher
Edward Alexander Bouchet Yale College class of 1874
Edward Mitchell Bannister by Gustine L. Hurd
Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration
Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs
Guion Bluford
Henry Highland Garnet by James U. Stead
Hester Jeffrey
Ike & Tina Turner, Bestanddeelnr 924-2170 - Restoration
Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus
Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954
Jeanette Scissum at Marshall Space Flight Center
John Campbell Dancy, Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D.C.
Katherine Johnson 1983
Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
Kobe Bryant 7144 adjusted
Malcolm X NYWTS 2a
Marian Anderson
Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop
Mary Jackson working 2 - Restoration
Michelle Obama 2013 official portrait
Minstrel PosterBillyVanWare edit
Mrs. Constance B. Motley, first woman Senator, 21st Senatorial District, N.Y., raising hand in V sign
Muhammad Ali NYWTS
Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946), M.D. 1882, portrait photograph by H.D. Carns & Co; Image ID 27593990
Portrait of Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
Ronald McNair, Guion Bluford, and Fred Gregory (S79-36529, restoration)
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Sgt Major Christian Fleetwood - American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient - Restoration
Sojourner Truth, 1870 (cropped, restored)
Tuskegee airman2
USA declaration independence
United States Declaration of Independence
United States President Barack Obama bends down to allow the son of a White House staff member to touch his head
Valerie L. Thomas standing with a stack of early Landsat Computer Compatible Tapes
Vernon E. Jordan working on a voter education project
W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907
Walter Francis White by Clara Sipprell
William Harvey Carney by James E Reed - Restoration

Featured pictures

"Capt. Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps, who now heads the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, CA - NARA - 535942
1899 poster of Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones
African man portrait Mostaert
Amanda Berry Smith by T. B. Latchmore
Angela Davis in a half-length portrait by Bernard Gotfryd - crop
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa - Black girl - MP 5531 - National Museum in Warsaw
Art Tatum, Vogue Room 1948 (Gottlieb)
Barack Obama family portrait 2011
Bessie Coleman in 1923
Big White Fog
Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895
Cabinet Card of Sojourner Truth - Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Cardiss Collins - Restoration
Carl Van Vechten - Shirley Graham Du Bois
Cicatrices de flagellation sur un esclave
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.) - NARA - 542015 - Restoration
Composer Florence Price (cropped)
Don Lemon at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Edmonia Lewis by Henry Rocher
Edward Alexander Bouchet Yale College class of 1874
Edward Mitchell Bannister by Gustine L. Hurd
Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration
Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs
Guion Bluford
Henry Highland Garnet by James U. Stead
Hester Jeffrey
Ike & Tina Turner, Bestanddeelnr 924-2170 - Restoration
Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus
Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954
Jeanette Scissum at Marshall Space Flight Center
John Campbell Dancy, Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D.C.
Katherine Johnson 1983
Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
Kobe Bryant 7144 adjusted
Malcolm X NYWTS 2a
Marian Anderson
Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop
Mary Jackson 1979 Portrait (LRC-1979-B701 P-07085)
Mary Jackson working 2 - Restoration
Michelle Obama 2013 official portrait
Minstrel PosterBillyVanWare edit
Mrs. Constance B. Motley, first woman Senator, 21st Senatorial District, N.Y., raising hand in V sign
Muhammad Ali NYWTS
Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946), M.D. 1882, portrait photograph by H.D. Carns & Co; Image ID 27593990
Portrait of Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
Ronald McNair, Guion Bluford, and Fred Gregory (S79-36529, restoration)
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Sgt Major Christian Fleetwood - American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient - Restoration
Sojourner Truth, 1870 (cropped, restored)
Thomas Mundy Peterson by William R. Tobias
Tuskegee airman2
USA declaration independence
United States Declaration of Independence
United States President Barack Obama bends down to allow the son of a White House staff member to touch his head
Valerie L. Thomas standing with a stack of early Landsat Computer Compatible Tapes
Vernon E. Jordan working on a voter education project
W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907
Walter Francis White by Clara Sipprell
William Harvey Carney by James E Reed - Restoration

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futurebird 05:09, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
deeceevoice 19:04, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Kynn 03:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sluzzelin 06:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC) (focus on music, but interested in every aspect)[reply]
Muntuwandi 00:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Optimale ^Gu 17:17, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ab e g92contribs 20:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Rob C (Alarob) 22:15, 8 May 2007 (UTC), esp. interested in history.[reply]
Malik Shabazz 22:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Littledrummrboy 16:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Cosprings 21:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
SqueakBox 23:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WDavis1911 02:23, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
DeeOlive 00:24, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Parkwells 16:19, 8 November 2007 (UTC) interests: Reconstruction,19th c. migrations and US social history[reply]
Skywriter interests: Journalism, Reconstruction History, civil rights, human rights
George100 11:22, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Blackjays1 (talk) 19:19, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mizu onna sango15 (talk) 07:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Lquilter - scientists, activists
Lizzard - writers, history, civil rights
RemoTheDog 14:10, 1 May 2007 (UTC) - African Diaspora, specifically Black Thought in Latin America[reply]
LizConno
WikiGuy86 03:49, 23 October 2008 (UTC) — Film main area of expertise, though interested in other aspects.[reply]
Wikid77 (talk) 08:36, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Moni3 (talk) 12:14, 3 April 2009 (UTC) North American civil rights[reply]
Bab-a-lot (talk) 21:54, 12 October 2009 (UTC) Colonial Era and the African diaspora[reply]
LTC David J. Cormier (talk) 15:27, 5 July 2010 (UTC) early North American efforts to return, culture[reply]
J N 466 19:26, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
SarahStierch (talk) 01:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Draco^E 00:11, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Chiwara (talk) Interests: African diaspora religions and the history of slavery.19:55, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
groupuscule (talk) 18:12, 16 August 2012 (UTC) with especial focus on Baltimore and other US cities (see Talk)[reply]
User:MassiveEartha (talk) 2 October 2012 with a focus on history and culture of people of African descent in the UK
[[D-free]] (talk) 06:27, 31 October 2012 (UTC) with a focus on African American history.[reply]
Ackees (talk) 13:05, 6 November 2012 (UTC) I am a global positioning system (figuratively speaking)...[reply]
Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 03:31, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Gandydancer (talk) 09:26, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Romar731 (talk) 05:19, 25 November 2013 (UTC) with interests in Baltimore, Black conscious movement in the US, history of Africa and HBCUs[reply]
Bali88 (talk) 18:17, 25 February 2014 (UTC) Interests: modern African American culture. I created the African-American names article and would love help growing it if anyone is interested.[reply]
Azeb 30 April 2014. Interested in East African diaspora identity/ethnicity politics. African-American political thought and feminism.
Selam 30 April 2014. Interest: Understanding the influence of history in the current family structures in minority communities.
Caballero/Historiador (talk) 02:05, 17 May 2014 (UTC) Interest: History[reply]
Sydney Poore/FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 21:05, 4 February 2015 (UTC) Most interested in writing about women, but also interest in local history of my state or places where I travel.[reply]
User:Breena Clarke interested primarily, but not solely, in the history and culture of people of the African diaspora especially women
Smmurphy^(Talk) 00:24, 16 February 2016 (UTC). Interested in US history, Reconstruction to WWII[reply]
LGCY NEL (talk) 06:00, 9 August 2016 (UTC)Nelson Davy. I'm very new to this. I'm interested in Business, ancient history,[reply]
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Innisfree987 (talk) 04:01, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Isaaccurtis (talk) 16:02, 21 September 2016 (UTC) Interested in history of slavery and anti-slavery, Afro-Indigenous relations, maroons, internationalism, Americas 1492-1804 & 20th-21st century[reply]
DStrassmann (talk) 20:52, 24 September 2016 (UTC) Interested in improving the quality of coverage relating to African Americans in the US and the African diaspora more generally.[reply]
JaneNova (talk) 12:43, 27 January 2017 (UTC) Interested in diversifying Wikipedia's content to include more high quality coverage of the history and culture of persons representing the black diaspora, especially the notable accomplishments of black women.[reply]
TheGracefulSlick (talk) 06:23, 7 February 2017 (UTC) Interested in music and sports, but will also help out with other subjects.[reply]
Yaa Harpo (talk · contribs)
Astronyte (talk) 04:08, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Smkyle1 (talk) 17:45, 03 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
haxwell (talk) 20:49, 29 July 2017 (MST)
Fluous (talk · contribs)
Ammarpad (talk · contribs)
Chenoeh (talk) 12:29, 20 December 2017 (EST) Interested in colonial North America and United States history, slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World
Circa73 (talk) 15:20, 27 December 2017 (UTC) My editing focus is African-American contemporay artists[reply]
LumaNatic (talk) 22:51, 13 January 2018 (EST) Interested in “freedom colonies,” “freedom towns,” “freedmens towns,” “freedmen settlements” “freedom settlements,” including “black towns” - any and all of such communities founded by people the world over escaping and rejecting Western colonialism’s white supremacy racism by creating “colonies of freedom” wherever they could. Also interested in the history and rise of the black family reunion, and black agricultural history, particularly those in (East) Texas and Western North Carolina, and the phenomenon of “blacks” receiving Confederate pensions after the Civil War.
User:MauraWen (talk) 13:44, 05 February 2018 (PST) Interested in African-American history, art, and culture and creating African-American Women biographies for WP:Women
User:pastelpencilcase (talk) 15:31, 21 March 2018 (EST)
User:LoisLib Interested in African American history in Tennessee and black women's history in general. But will also help out in general with related subjects.
Siarus1074 (talk) 20:04, 13 May 2018 (UTC) I am a member of AfroCROWD and look forward to contributing to the project.[reply]
Serenesage (talk) 21:01, 27 June 2018 (UTC) Law and politics. My edits concentrate on telling the stories of under-represented women.[reply]
Aliceba (talk) 19:52, 10 July 2018 (UTC) -- I am the founder and ED of Afrocrowd which focuses on Afrodescendant content and editor gap in the wikimedia movement. We would like to start a discussion about potentially starting a virtual campaign around Wiki Project African Diaspora. Please contact me on my userpage if you are interested in such a campaign.[reply]
sengbe7 (talk) 11:26, 9 September 2018 (UTC) I am interested in helping make articles more objective.[reply]
Feralpearl (talk) 06:59, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
T.scott0513 (talk)T.scott0513 (talk) 07:35, 26 September 2018 (UTC) I am interested in exploring the multitude of experiences of black people within the African diaspora.[reply]
KB0221 (talk) 18:47, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Tamsier (talk) 17:48, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
WayneBu (talk) 23:50, 22 December 2018

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Resources

Digitized books

Okpewho, Isidore; Nzegwu, Nkiru (2009). The new African diaspora. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253353375.
Olaniyan, Tejumola; Sweet, James H (2010). The African Diaspora and the Disciplines. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253354648.
Hine, Darlene Clark; Danielle Keaton, Trica; Small, Stephen (2009). Black Europe and the African diaspora. University of Illinois Press.
Davies, Carole Boyce (2008). Encyclopedia of the African diaspora: origins, experiences and culture, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851097005.
Wisdom, Tettey; Puplampu, Korbla P (2005). The African diaspora in Canada: negotiating identity & belonging. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 1552381757.
Olliz-Boyd, Antonio (2010). The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context. Cambria Press. ISBN 9781604977042.
Carter, Donald Martin (2010). Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816647774.
Conyers, Jr, James L (2009). Racial structure and radical politics in the African diaspora. London : Transaction. ISBN 1412810450.
Curry, Dawne Y; Duke;, Eric D; Smith, Marshanda A (2009). Extending the diaspora : new histories of Black people. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252034596.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Arthur, John A (2008). The African diaspora in the United States and Europe: the Ghanaian experience. Ashgate.

Web pages

MoAD - The Museum of the African Diaspora
Afro-Europe - The blog relating to all things Afro-European and black Europe
Afropolitans - The blog on the cosmopolitan community of African ancestry
Racism and the Law - Considers race, racism and racial distinctions in the law. It examines the role of domestic and international law in promoting and/or alleviating racism.