Introduction

Abstract

Polysemic and always open to reviews, the notion of "diaspora" has inspired poets, chroniclers or fictionists to aesthetically and ideologically imagine their places of belonging or obsession. Due to the fact that they emerged in peripheral production contexts, in a continent that sheltered throughout its history exchanges and clashes resulting from migratory flows of different cultural groups, the African textualities were able to effectively articulate, at the thematic, formal and even institutional levels, the ideas of displacement, detachment and exile, categories almost always associated with the diasporic universe. In addition, many of their authors lived experiences of this nature, whether forced or voluntary, inside or outside their spaces of affection. The number 14 of Mulemba offers a set of essays that confirms the historical importance, the heterogeneity of looks and the actuality of these themes in African literatures in Portuguese language.