Diaspora Wars, Part 2 | Amo & Monèt Get Real About Africaness, Blackness and Belonging

Friend… we’re jumping right back in. Part two of our diaspora conversation turns into a full Socratic seminar (with jokes, because we’re still us), because the questions are big:
What does it mean that “African” can be tied to place, while Blackness isn’t location-dependent? What happens when your culture is everywhere, but your “home” is nowhere on the map? And how do we build relationships across the Atlantic without reenacting empire?

In this episode, we talk diaspora tension, identity, culture, land, and the longing underneath it all. We get into: Black culture in the US as survival tech, the idea that “we echolocate each other because we are each other’s continent,” the grief of being told you don’t belong from multiple directions, and the difference between “I’m moving somewhere” vs “I’m trying to be in relationship with people and place.”

If you’ve ever wrestled with:
Black diaspora identity, African identity, “diaspora wars,” reclaiming culture, ancestral memory, place-making, migration, reverse migration, belonging, Black community, Black women’s inner lives, self-actualization, or how to build a life that can actually hold your dreams… this one’s for you.

Also: we do not let white folks off the hook. Please go get your Celtic and Norse ancestors. They are hungry.

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Content note: explicit language + deep talk on identity, belonging, diaspora tension, colonialism, and cultural grief.