The Regions
Afro-descendants are everywhere!
While the African continent is the natural and historical home of Afro-descendants, and while there is the largest concentration of them on that continent, there are Afro-descendants on every continent, in every region, in every country and every corner of the world.
The African Union divides all these into 6 regions – five in Africa and one for the diaspora everywhere else on the planet.
The Global Prize adopts an eight-region zoning as a way of giving more attention to communities in diaspora that might otherwise be overlooked or marginalised
The table below shows the eight regions and their components.
Algeria
Egypt
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Sahrawi Arab Dem. Republic
Tunisia
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cabo Verde
Ivory Coast
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea Bissau
Guinea
Liberia
Mali
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Burundi
Cameroon
Central Africa Republic
Chad
Congo Republic
DR Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Sao Tome & Principe
Comoros
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Mauritius
Rwanda
Seycheles
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Angola
Botswana
Eswatini
Lesotho
Malawi
Mozanbique
Namibia
South Africa
Zambia
Zimbabwe
• The Bahamas
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Cuba
• Haiti
• Dominican Republic
• Jamaica
• Puerto Rico
• Navassa Island
• United States Virgin Islands
• British Virgin Islands
• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Saint Martin
• Saba
• Sint Eustatius
• Saint Barthélemy
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Montserrat
• Guadeloupe
• Dominica
• Martinique
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Grenada
• Barbados
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Aruba
• Curaçao
• Bonaire
- Canada
- Mexico
- United States
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombi
- Ecuador
- Falkland Islands
- French Guiana.
- Guyana
- Paraguay
- Peru
- South Georgia
- South Sandwich Islands
- Suriname
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Asia
Europe - Far East
- Middle East
- Oceania
- All others areas
“Don’t care where you come fromAs long as you’re a black manYou’re an AfricanNo mind your nationalityYou have got the identity
Of an African.“
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