Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. Routes of Passage addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement, changing culture, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora, interdiaspora relations, political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation, existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space, and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.