Diaspora
Come hometo yourself.
Stories, policy toolkits, and cultural programming that moves between continents — for the second-generation, the organizer, the elder with cassette tapes warping in a shoebox.
I didn't realise how much I'd been translating myself for other people until I stopped having to…
Amara K.
Freetown → Toronto
Every voice,
a different country.
Hover over each story. Let the archive breathe. These are three of thousands — more wait behind the gate.
Kwame Asante
Built a remittance co-op from a WhatsApp group of twelve.
What started as a group chat to pool school fees became a £400,000 cooperative that now owns a building in Kumasi. Kwame spent three years mapping every regulatory loophole between HMRC and Ghana Revenue Authority.
Ngozi Eze
Her podcast on repatriation has 80,000 listeners who call it therapy.
Ngozi recorded her first episode at 2am, crying, on the floor of her Atlanta apartment after a particularly bad week of code-switching. She thought three people would listen. She was wrong.
Tendai Moyo
Teaching Shona to third-gen kids who only speak it in dreams.
The language school Tendai runs meets every Saturday in a community centre that smells like jollof rice from the Ghanaian church next door. She says the smell is part of the curriculum.
Seun Adeyemi
Documenting the irony of being more Nigerian in Germany.
Seun noticed he started wearing more aso-oke after moving to Berlin. His photo essay on diaspora identity performance has been shown in three galleries and one bus shelter.
Fatou Diallo
Twice-migrated, twice as clear about where she belongs.
Moving from Dakar to Paris taught Fatou that she was African. Moving from Paris to Montréal taught her she was West African. She is currently writing a book about the geography of self-knowledge.
The archive gives
before it asks.
Three toolkits are yours right now, no login needed. The deeper archive — 40+ guides, oral histories, policy briefings — opens after you tell us which corridor you walk.
Dual Citizenship Navigator
Country-by-country breakdown of dual nationality rights across 54 African states — with residency timelines, fee schedules, and embassy contacts updated February 2026.
The Return Guide: West Africa
Housing market primers, tax implications, school enrollment, and community landing spots for Lagos, Accra, Abidjan, and Dakar. Written by people who actually moved back.
Remittance Co-op Toolkit
Legal templates, governance frameworks, and step-by-step guides for setting up a community remittance cooperative — from WhatsApp group to registered entity in six months.
Heritage Language Preservation Kit
Recording protocols, transcription guides, and community curriculum frameworks for Yoruba, Twi, Amharic, Wolof, Shona, and twelve other languages.
Diaspora Voting Rights Primer
Absentee ballot procedures, political party diaspora wings, and advocacy contact lists for Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and Zimbabwe elections through 2027.
The Belonging Workbook
Therapeutic exercises developed with diaspora psychologists for processing identity fragmentation, cultural grief, and the specific exhaustion of code-switching.
Voices before
the tape warps.
Recorded in living rooms, over video calls, in care homes and on back porches. Press play before the cassettes go silent.
The day I left the airport and the sky was the wrong colour
"The grey was not like any grey I had imagined. I had imagined English grey from books. The books were wrong about the cold that comes from inside the grey…"
How I kept Swahili alive in a house that only spoke English and Somali
"I would sing to the vegetables while I cooked. The children thought I was strange. Later they asked me to teach them. By then, some of the words had already gone…"
What the cassette tapes hold that my memory has already lost
"There are thirty-two cassettes in a shoebox under my bed. I have not listened to them in eleven years because I am afraid of what I will hear — and what I will not…"
340 oral histories archived · 12 languages · recordings from 1963 to 2025
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