Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Abstract 7 Résumé 9 Acknowledgements 11 List of Figures 13 1. Introduction 15 Introduction 63 2. A history of African diaspora in Germany 67 3. Growing up in Frankfurt 91 4. Family affairs - an intergenerational approach to diaspora 117 5. Racism and its intersection with class and gender 133 Conclusion to Part I 147 Introduction 151 6. Maya B.: Building Afrodiasporic identity through travel 153 7.

Lafia T.: The long journey to her father's land 169 8. Aminata Camara: Negotiating privilege, kinship and care in diasporic travel 185 Conclusion to Part II 199 Introduction 203 9. Life storytelling as Black and feminist political practice 205 10. Oxana Chi and Layla Zami: Connecting to global Blackness on the move 219 Conclusion to Part III 237 Conclusion 241 Epilogue 251 Bibliography 255.