ABSTRACT

African Immigration is not a novel phenomenon. African ancestors had in the past thousands of years moved into different global spaces. Contemporary African immigration to the West is not novel and neither is it an isolated phenomenon. African immigration to Great Britain has been well documented,1 as well as to France, and other colonial metropolis. The African presence in Arabia, the Indian Ocean, and the former Soviet spaces are well documented, precluding the African diaspora to Europe, Caribbean, and the Americas due to the transatlantic slave trades since the 1500s.