Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 1. Overviews
1. Introduction: Can We "Go Home Again"?
Isidore Okpewho
2. Diaspora Dialogues: Engagements Between Africa and Its Diasporas
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Part 2. Leaving Home
3. Togo on My Mind
Adzele K. Jones
4. "I, Too, Want to Be a Big Man": The Making of a Haitian "Boat People"
Georges E. Fouron
5. Africa's Migration Brain Drain: Factors Contributing to the Mass Emigration of Africa's Elite to the West
Amadu Jacky Kaba
Part 3. Relocation and Redefinition
6. "The West Is Cold": Experiences of Ghanaian Performers in England and the United States
James Burns
7. Migration and Bereavement: How Ghanaian Migrants Cope in the United Kingdom
Helen Anin-Boateng
8. Acculturation and the Health of Black Immigrants in the United States
Florence M. Margai
9. Socio-Legal Barriers to the Full Citizenship of Recent African Immigrants in Canada: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
10. The Effects of Immigration and Refugee Policies on Africans in the United States: From the Civil Rights Movement to the War on Terrorism
Cassandra R. Veney
11. Immigrants and the American System of Justice: Perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks
John A. Arthur
12. Africans Abroad: Comparative Perspectives on America's Post-Colonial Africans
Baffour K. Takyi
13. Questions of Identity Among African Immigrants in America
Msia Kibona Clark
Part 4. A Measure of Success
14. Immigration and African Diaspora Women Artists
Nkiru Nzegwu
15. Emerging Communities: The Religious Life of New African Immigrants in the United States
Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani
16. The Orisha Rescue Mission
Donald Cosentino
17. Redefining "Africa" in the Diaspora with New Media Technologies
Azuka Nzegwu
Part 5. Transnational Perspectives
18. Resisting "Race": Organizing African Tr