Remembering Khartoum and Other Tales of Displacement
Remembering Khartoum and Other Tales of Displacement
This chapter returns to the origins of the African diaspora and the elusive hope of peace and return to the homeland. The focus is in Sudan, which has been the site of contemporary civil unrest, violence, and genocide. The fact that these terrible things occur in the homeland is the same factor that drives the people of the diaspora to carve out their own homes elsewhere—the “passion of belonging,” as well as that sense of identity that they are trying to preserve. Exclusion, after all, is part of the diasporic experience, albeit not without the prevailing hope of peace and belonging. Yet the memories etched out in Khartoum and Darfur indicate that peace within their homeland is not yet a certainty, especially for those longing for home.
Keywords: African diaspora, Khartoum, Darfur, Sudan, diasporic experience, belonging, identity
Minnesota Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
