Siddi
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The Siddi, also known as the Sheedi, Sidi, or Siddhi, are an ethnic group living in Pakistan and India. They are primarily descended from the Bantu peoples of the Zanj coast in Southeast Africa, most
Muslim Siddi community in India
Sidis of Madras
Siddi Folk dancers, at Devaliya Naka, Sasan Gir, Gujarat.
A Siddi girl from the town of Yellapur in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, India.
African diaspora
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The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities that descended from people from Africa. The term most commonly refers to emigrants of people of African heritage but could also refer to
18th-century painting showing a family of Africans
20th-century American philosopher and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois wrote extensively on the black experience in his homeland and abroad; he spent the last two years of his life in the newly independent Ghana and got citizenship there.
Haiti has the largest Afro-Caribbean population (almost 11 million) and also has the highest percentage of its population descended from the African diaspora (95%).
The racial make-up of the Dominican Republic includes many Afro-Caribbeans, mestizos, Taíno-descended persons, and whites.