The African diaspora in Africa — North

Arab slavery, started well before the Atlantic Slave Trade, brought Blacks to North Africa. The taking of slaves by Muslims was extensive but would not be obvious to people in the twenty-first century because fewer known descendants of slaves were around to remind people of it.. Endemic states of war have created enormous displacements of sub-Saharan populations fleeing to North Africa and forming there in their place of refuge another society that can be likened to its counterpart in the Americas. Unfortunately, no demographics on Blacks in North Africa exist but as this section of Africa is “coming under growing scholarly scrutiny, part of an important effort to document and analyse the scale and scope of black slavery in the North and to assess and comprehend the degree of prejudice and marginalization that blacks experience in the North to this very day”, it should not be long before statistics become available.

Afro-Arabs are found in North Africa, East and West, Middle East and Arab peninsula.

 

The African diaspora in the Caribbean Islands

The majority of the Caribbean has populations of mainly Africans in the French Caribbean, Anglophone Caribbean and Dutch Caribbean. The Spanish-speaking Caribbean have primarily mixed race, African, or European majorities. Italians, Portuguese, Asians, especially those of Chinese and Indian descent, form a significant minority in the region and also contribute to multiracial communities. All of their ancestors arrived in the 19th century as indentured labourers, except many Portuguese arrived with the Napoleonic armies to crush the insurgents of Haiti.

Larger islands such as Jamaica, have a very large African majority, in addition to a significant mixed race, Chinese, Europeans, Indian, Lebanese, Latin American, and Syrian populations. This is a result of years of importation of slaves and indentured labourers, and migration. Most multi-racial Jamaicans refer to themselves as either mixed race or simply Black. The situation is similar for the Caribbean Community (Caricom) states of Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.