ABSTRACT
The complexity of the African-American experience in the Americas covers over four centuries of history from enslaved forced labor to the more recent role of President and Commander in Chief of the United States. Not surprisingly their diverse multifaceted social, linguistic, psychological, and economic experiences have had an ongoing fascination for scholars of all disciplines. With over 12 percent of the African-American diaspora residing in the United States of America (USA), this contemporary study is in keeping with previous interdisciplinary studies and is also a unique contribution by way of adding to the literature on economic survival strategies of the twenty-first-century African diaspora. The latter is an area not so well informed or as arduously studied in academic journals or even popular literature.
