African Diaspora - Slave Trade, African Diapsora, Slave Trade African Diaspora - Slave Trade Today's African Diaspora is a mixture of willing and unwilling migration from the African continent. What is the African Diaspora? The dispersion of Africans during and after the trans-Atlantic slave trade and others enroute to India as slaves and source of labor. People of African descent with their own communities outside the African continent are also referred to as being part of the Diaspora. This includes, brothers and sisters now in The Americas(new world), Europe, India and Australia. The Origin The dispersion and spreading of African people originally belonging to one nation and having a common culture. From the word "diaspeirein" Latin for disperse, From the word "Dia - + speirein" Greek for scatter or sow and from the word "spora" Greek for sowing or reproduction and spreading