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    Africa,with its 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, covers 20% of Earth’s land area and 6% of its total surface area. With its 1.4 billion people as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world’s human population. With the world’s youngest population the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30. (Wiki ref).

    It contains 54 fully recognised sovereign states, eight territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Algeria is Africa’s largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. African nations cooperate through the establishment of the African Union, which is headquartered in Ethiopia, and recent addition, the African Continental Free Trade Area.

    The continent of Africa is diverse in terms of its economic development and potential, and was divided into five economic regions based on their economic characteristics, cultural affinities, and geographic proximity. Later, the African Union in its Constitutive Act, Article 3Q, went on to invite and encourage the African Diaspora to participate in the building and development of the African continent.

    The African Diaspora, which includes people of African descent living outside of the African continent, such as the Americas, Australia, Asia, Europe and other areas, has been officially recognized by the AU as its sixth region.

    AUAD of the 6th Region, living in the 5 Regions on the Continent
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    Community of Sahel–Saharan States (CEN–SAD)
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    Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
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    East African Community (EAC)
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    Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
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    Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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    African Diaspora
    This section is to focus on the AUAD/Historic Diaspora (as referred to by the African Union), the descendants of the Africans who were captured, trafficked, and enslaved around the globe. These descendants who have now migrated from outside Africa and are domiciled on the continent in countries within the 5 Regions.
    We will be including a variety of information on the groups from the 6th Region who have Repatriated, in order to highlight the contributions this sector of the 6th Region is making on the ground, and assist with their connection to the African Union and its RECs.
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    The immigration of African Americans, West Indians, and Black Britons to Africa occurred mainly during the late 18th century to mid-19th century. In the cases of Liberia and Sierra Leone both were established by freed slaves who were repatriated to Africa within a 28-year period. [fr Wiki – citation needed].

    However, other ex-slaves were repatriated from other European territories and colonies. The Tabom people are descendants of Afro-Brazilian ex-slaves who were either voluntarily or forcefully deported by the Portuguese to Africa (some of them being deported following the Bahia Malê Revolt in 1835); they constitute a minority ethnic group on the coastal regions of modern-day Ghana and Togo.

    The Jamaican Rastafari movement managed to create a settlement in Shashamane, a town in Ethiopia, which exists to this day and constitutes over 200 individuals out of a larger urban population 600 to 900, and 6000 from all over the globe.