Today Africa is experiencing a new, booming, civilising diaspora, as on previous occasions. Youths of both sexes are circulating within the continent, and hardly a portion of these migrants head north to European lands. The texts in this work, written by European and African experts, both male and female, outline the general panorama of the population movements in sub-Saharan Africa at the beginning of this century. They discuss the past emigration of many peoples, the Europeans’ atavistic fear of the other, the ideological causes – and not just the economic ones – that strengthen the population flow toward the North, the expansion of cultural practices between the two continents, the persistence of strong identities and the emergence of others of a cosmopolitan nature in music and art, and the transcontinental networks that allow for an intense relationship between African and European regions. Without any risk of emptying itself of human beings, the great African wineskin is contributing its personality to the new West.

Ferran Iniesta
He is a lecturer in the History of Africa at the University of Barcelona, and previously he was a lecturer at the University of Dakar (Senegal) the University of Antananarivo (Madagascar). Director of the Erasmus programme, “Europe and African Societies”, and promoter of the Centre for African Studies and the journal Studia Africana, he has been the promoter of the Congresses on African Studies in the Iberian World (since 1991) and he directs the Consolidated Research Group, GESA, on political and ideological processes south of the Sahara. Among his books, the following stand out: El planeta negro [The Black Planet] (2002); África en la frontera occidental [Africa on the Western Border] (co-edition with A. Roca; 2002); Emitai: estudios de historia africana [Emitai: Studies in African History] (2000); De Marx a Platón: retorno a la tradición occidental [From Marx to Plato: Return to the Western Tradition] (with A. Rojo and L. Botinas; 1999) and Kuma: historia del África negra [Kuma: History of Black Africa] (1998), among other titles.

ISBN: 978-84-87072-79-6

Pp. 190

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