Introduction / Joseph E. Harris
Conceptual and methodological issues
The dialectic between diasporas and homelands / Elliott P. Skinner
African diaspora : concept and context / George Shepperson
African diaspora : conceptual framework, problems and methodological approaches / Oruno D. Lara
Conceptualizing Afro-American / African relations : implications for African diaspora studies / Okon Edet Uya
The relationship between African and African-American literature as utilitarian art : a thoeretical formulation / Micere M. Githae-Mugo
Concepts of diaspora and alienation as privileged themes in négritude literature / Daniel L. Racine
African oral traditions and Afro-American cultural traditions as a means of understanding black culture / Djibril Tamsir Niane
A comparative approach to the study of the African diaspora / Joseph E. Harris
Assimilation and identity
African culture and U.S. slavery / Lawrence W. Levine
Thoughts about literature, the diaspora and Africa / Darwin T. Turner
Howard University and Meharry Medical Schools in the training of African physicians, 1868-1978 / Adell Patton, Jr.
Guinea versus Congo Lands : aspects of the collective memory in Haiti / Guerin C. Montilus
Blacks in Britain : a historical and analytical overview / Folarin Shyllon
The impact of Afro-Americans on French-speaking black Africans, 1919-1945 / Ibrahima B. Kaké
Richard Wright, négritude and African literature / Michel J. Fabre
A lesser-known chapter of the African diaspora : West Indians in Costa Rica, Central America / Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte and assisted by Trevor Purcell
Garvey and scattered Africa / Tony Martin
Afro-American influence in colonial Malawi, 1891-1945 : a case study of the interaction between Africa and Africans of the diaspora / Kings M. Phiri
The presence of black Americans in Lower Congo from 1878 to 1921 / Kimpianga Mahaniah
Afro-Americans and Futa Djalon / Boubacar Barry
Brazilian returnees of West Africa / S.Y. Bodai-Siaw
The Sierra Leone Krios : a reappraisal from the perspective of the African diaspora / Akintola J.G. Wyse
Diaspora studies and Pan-Africanism / St. Clair Drake.
