Economic experts, private sector leaders and others who converged at the Pan-African University, Lekki, Lagos, over the weekend, concurred that Nigerians in the diaspora are a critical factor in the federal government's efforts towards seeking foreign direct investments (FDI) into the country. Delivering a lecture entitled "A Competitive Economy for an Oil Rich Country," 2001 Nobel Prize winner and former vice president of World Bank, Professor Joseph Stiglitz stressed the need to encourage N...read more

Africans are present in nearly every country on the planet. In the diaspora, Africans have produced thousands of newspapers and periodicals beginning in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately this potentially valuable resource is beyond the reach of scholars and others because of the absence of a comprehensive international documentation strategy for the collection, preservation, and access to these publications. The goal of the African Diaspora Press Project is to begin to address this vas...read more

This web site contains a comprehensive listing of news about the diaspora in a variety of subject areas.

Each year, hundreds of African students and professionals leave the continent to study or to seek greener pastures abroad, especially in countries like the UK, US, Canada and Australia. This has been attributed to the many conflicts and the economic collapse that parts of the continent have been experiencing over the years.

This book shares the story of Tsoaledi Daniel Thobejane, an activist who was part of the South African liberation struggle and who suffered at the hands of the Nationalist Party regime. It is a book that is interesting because it examines the struggle through the eyes of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), a much smaller liberation organisation compared to the African National Congress (ANC) that supported the philosophy of black consciousness. This is of value because “struggle discou...read more

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