African Americans and others in the African diaspora have
increasingly "come home" to Africa to visit the sites at which
their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis
of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of
the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and
Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice. She
examines the varying interpretations and appropriations of
significant sites (e.g. the slave forts), events (e.g. Emancipation
Day) and discourses (e.g. repatriation) in Ghana to highlight these
dynamics. From this, she develops her notions of diaspora, home,
homecoming, memory and identity that reflect the complexity and
multiple reverberations of these cultural encounters beyond the
sphere of roots tourism.
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