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| Title: | Broadening the canon: Africa and its non-migrant diasporas |
| Author: | Anyaduba, Chigbo A. |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Periodical: | Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies (ISSN 1992-6049) |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 507-521 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria Africa |
| Subjects: | diasporas boundaries sovereignty colonialism |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2016.1226728 |
| Abstract: | This article examines the patterns of diasporic formations occurring within Africa. This is with a view to broadening conceptualisations of the African diaspora in recent criticism of the subject. While noting that recent critical discussions of African diasporas have been significant for their focus on diasporic formations within Africa, this article observes that this scholarship has looked exclusively at diasporas formed through dispersion, especially through the European-occasioned dispersal of peoples. This focus on dispersion-induced diasporisation does not only fail to account for a more general diasporic situation on the African continent, but it also excludes from the diaspora discourse considerations of groups not formed through specific notions of dispersion. Therefore, this study highlights the instance of non-migrant diasporic conditions in Nigeria and by so doing problematises conceptions of African diasporas that insist basically on the conditions of dispersion, migration and vulnerability of populations. I further argue that the imposition of colonial borders and the loss of indigenous sovereignties account for the more pervasive diasporic situation in Africa. Broadening the concept of diaspora to include conditions and populations not generally considered in the discourse offers more nuanced results and helps us to revise the largely ethnic essentialisms on which diasporic formations in Africa have been constructed. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |
