Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Historical and Conceptual Perspective

1. Pan-Africanisms and the Integration of Continental and Diaspora Africans

Part II. Continental Expressions and Diasporan Identities

2. The Young Igbo Diaspora in the United States

3. African Immigrants and their Churches

4. The Making of the Liberian Diasporas and the Challenges of Postwar Reconstruction

5. Exploring the Transformative Effects of Policy Among African Diaspora Voters

6. Contemporary Migrations of Nigerians to the United States

Part III: The Diaspora and Continental Ramifications

7. The Remittance Objectives of Second-Generation Ghanaian-Americans

8. The Diaspora and the Leadership Challenge in Nigeria

9. The Role of the Diaspora in Strengthening Democratic Governance in Africa

10. The Visa Lottery Versus Brain Drain: The impact of the African Diaspora on Vocational Artisanship

11. Revisiting Africa’s Brain Drain and the Diaspora Option

About the Author

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, US.

Adebayo Oyebade is Professor of History at Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, US.