This is a mock-cover for my book whilst we decide on what will best depict the interwoven Tapestry of Tales of the Scatterlings from Southern Africa; now spread out around the global village...
I'm delighted to have a response from SA and Zimbabwean expats living in UK, USA, NZ, OZ, Canada, Peru, Bermuda, Kenya, SA, the Ilse of Wight etc... who wish to add to the rich tapestry of the book...
For more info please email me on ...
eve.epiphany@gmail.com
From Wikipedia :
A diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion")[1] is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland"[2] or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location",[3] or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".[2]
The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of people with common roots, particularly movements of an involuntary nature, such as the expulsion of Jews from the Middle East, the African Trans-Atlantic slave trade, or the century-long exile of the Messenians under Spartan rule.[3]
Recently scholarship has distinguished between different kinds of diaspora, based on its causes such as imperialism, trade or labor migrations, or by the kind of social coherence within the diaspora community and its ties to the ancestral lands. Some diaspora communities maintain strong political ties with their homeland. Other qualities that may be typical of many diasporas are thoughts of return, relationships with other communities in the diaspora, and lack of full assimilation to the host country.[3]
I see us as the diaspora people from Southern Africa- scattered and now scatterlings... vagabonds with a foot in Africa and a foot abroad...
(Diaspora - from the Greek - dispersed...!)
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