The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context
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Acknowledgments

¡Mil Gracias!…Obrigadíssimo! Many thanks to the myriad novelists, poets, and essayists from Latin America who have overtly or covertly expressed their connection to Africa for me to ponder, digest, and consider as a fact of life. The widely expanding concentric circles of the African Diaspora lead back to the African Continent in search of self.

Nuestro folclor afroespañol, hispanoafricano, tiene guitarra y tambor y se resuelve en el son cubano. (Excilia Saldaña, Kele Kele)
(Our folklore is Afro-Spanish, Hispanic-African; with guitar and drum it resolves itself in the music of Cuba.)

The Ghana Connection

Quite by chance, an article on the Internet affirmatively suggested the possibility of locating an established group in Ghana that had reversed the Diaspora from the Americas back to the Continent. Ghanaian friends, ex-students, and colleagues offered their services in answer to my query: Have you heard of such a group? Thanks to Alex Aning (Asante), Moses