ABSTRACT
Paul Gilroy’s study of African Diaspora culture, The Black Atlantic, begins with three quotes. One of them, from Friedrich Nietzsche, reads:
We have left the land and have embarked. We have burned our bridges behind us – indeed we have gone further and destroyed the land behind us. … Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom – and there is no longer any land. 1
