The Harlem Renaissance coincided with the emergence of African intelligentsia between the two World Wars. While the struggle for independence was going on one side of the Atlantic (Africa), the Civil Rights movement was raging on the other side of the Atlantic (the US). And at the time the “securitization” of Africa is based on the perception and perspective of the West, that of the African-African community is handled through over-policing with increased militarization in both cases. Will the symbiosis of oppression and resistance of people of African descent on both sides of the Atlantic continue and will a sense of common purpose be forged in the evolving geopolitics? These questions are discussed by Marcel Kitissou in a keynote at the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the independence of Ghana in Albany, NY.

Africa and the African Diaspora