Reencounter with Africa

The abduction, trafficking and uprooting of people and entire families under the system of enslavement broke the intergenerational transmission of memory, collective identities, our languages and our ancestral practices, and erased the knowledge of our family genealogies.

The rupture was not total. African identities, knowledge and practices in the diaspora were rebuilt in new territories, with new expressions, upon an oral and genetic memory that has always accompanied processes of resistance and liberation.

Today, reencounter with Africa is not only about recovering what was lost: it is about strengthening and protecting what we still hold, and reconnecting our contemporary struggles as peoples of the continent and of the sixth region against new forms of colonialism. Our processes of economic liberation and self-determination grow stronger as we articulate them with our brothers and sisters on the continent, through people-to-people diplomacy, solidarity and South-South trade.