It’s always compelling to see how Black communities from different parts of the world connect. A new video, "Na nga def: Diasporics Encounter Africans," captures just that.
The footage documents a 2008 meeting between young Black Brazilian women from the Diaspora and their peers from across Africa. One remark stood out: “I thought Brazil was all white.”
The video serves as a preview for an upcoming documentary exploring the encounter of young activists from Africa and its Diaspora on Gorée Island in Senegal – one of the principal ports in the transatlantic slave trade, where enslaved Africans were sent to the Americas for more than three centuries. Na nga def? (“How are you?” in Wolof) became a daily greeting among the Diaspora participants during their 30-day stay on Gorée in July 2008.