It is Africa Day and a conversation about the global African Diaspora, which describes the dispersion of Africans or people of African descent into the rest of the world, needs to be had. Because the Atlantic slave trade saw large black West and Central Africans being uprooted and enslaved with the largest populations of the African diaspora being in Brazil, the United States and in Haiti. This violent enslavement would set the tone for many Africans today and in essence, change the idea of being African because this idea is specific to geographical location; the idea of being African is not unanimous across the world. There remains a dilemma for many African people who are forced to forge their own identities throughout the world, in countries that cannot be claimed as their own. In this conversation, Lerato Mbele unpacks the African Diaspora and the fight to forge an African identity throughout the world with Cultural Expert Menzi Maseko and Afrikan Historian, Dr Yaa-Ashantewaa Archer-Ngidi