This is a programme which falls within the area of study called Diaspora Studies.  We aim to look at how Africans of Diaspora, principally in Jamaica and the USA, moved in thought and deed from being on the outskirts of the New World Societies to which they were brought, to social and political participation in these societies, in the 20th Century.  Given its intentions, this programme falls principally in the domain of historical sociology.  We look at what current writers say on the matter of social death and social inclusion of the African of the Diaspora, as well as at data which speak to this behaviour.  We look also at the strategies for deeper inclusion as elaborated by contemporary thinkers of African descent.