African Diaspora
The history of the transatlantic slave trade involved the exportation of 12 to 15 million Africans to the Caribbean and the Americas from the 14th to the 19th centuries as slaves.
European colonial powers further exacerbated the situation by partitioning Africa during the infamous Berlin Conference in 1884/1885. Consequently, Africans, within and outside the continent, have endured racial discrimination and economic exploitation for more than five centuries, through colonial brutality and neo-imperial relations.
Despite the symbolic attainment of political independence by African and Caribbean countries, African people
