The Seasons of Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia

Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith, University of Nebraska at Omaha

This article is reused with kind permission.

Abstract

As the African diaspora continues to define its own unique position and global contributions, African diaspora studies are necessarily asserting themselves as essential to the cultural-diversity and multiculturalism discourse in the U.S. and, most important, as an indispensable part of the current discourse on pan-Africanist consciousness, global identity, and the new world order.