ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains that African Homecoming attempts to create a better understanding of the politics of heritage and homecoming as it unfolds in the encounter between diasporan and continental Africans in Ghana. This politics refers to the violent history of the slave trade and the resulting dispersal of African people; on the other hand, it is connected to the re-affirmation of Black commonality by means of a shared cultural heritage. In recent years, this encounter has been facilitated mainly by the growth of the Ghanaian tourism sector and the marketing of the slave routes connected to it via so-called heritage tourism. If one considers these developments within the framework of a 'strategic use of essentialisms', the term strategic implies a conscious application on part of the social actors.
