The African diaspora: history, adaptation and health

The African diaspora: history, adaptation and health.

The trans-Atlantic slave trade brought millions of Africans to the New World. Advances in genomics are providing novel insights into the history and health of Africans and the diasporan populations. Recent examples reviewed here include the unraveling of substantial hunter-gatherer and 'Eurasian' admixtures across sub-Saharan Africa, expanding our understanding of ancestral African genetics; th...

Diet and long-term health: an African Diaspora perspective.

The life-stage approach, which views the behaviours and exposures of an individual from the preconceptual situation of the parent through pregnancy, infancy, childhood and adolescence, and into the advancing years through adulthood, is the basis of analysis of strategies to improve long-term health. Among the behaviours of note is the dietary selection pattern, conditioning our exposure to nutr...

Cystic Fibrosis in the African Diaspora.

Identifying mutations that cause cystic fibrosis (CF) is important for making an early, unambiguous diagnosis, which, in turn, is linked to better health and a greater life expectancy. In patients of African descent, a molecular diagnosis is often confounded by the fact that the majority of investigations undertaken to identify causative mutations have been conducted on European populations, an...

Plural in the African- American Diaspora

T LNDERLXNG CATEGORY OF PLURAL, along with its morphological expression by way of the suffix -s, has been considered a robust, if variable, feature of African-American English grammar at least since Harrison (1884) observed that "the Negro forms the plural regularly by addition of s or 2." (225). Subsequent empirical research on different varieties of contemporary African-American Vernacular En...

AFRICAN DIASPORA AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT Background paper for AfroNeth