What is the African Diaspora?

To address the African diaspora, we must first address the word diaspora. The word that has greek etymological origin in translation means a scattering (of any thing). Today the word is used to refer to humans, more specifically, ethnic groups of people who have scattered or migrated away from their ancestral homeland. Thus to think of the African diaspora is to think of the nomadic/cultural, voluntary, and forced /involuntary movement of people from the continent Africa to the rest of the world. Such movement (some historians/anthropologists have found) can be traced back to 1200bc-700bc when black Africans from Egypt and Nubia sailed west across the Atlantic and initiated extensive contact with native peoples in the Americas. Contemporarily speaking, those who identify as being a member of the African  diaspora mostly identify with the history of the involuntary movement of people of African descent throughout the world.