![]() Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. I learned how the absence of so many Igbo and Yoruba people felt for some growing up in West Africa under European reign. I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery - how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. It’s a West African name, originating within the Igbo ethnicity, which is one of many ethnicities on the African continent and now across the African diaspora ( 1). My wife and I chose this last name before starting our family.
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