Familiar Faces/Unexpected Places: A Global African Diaspora offers an expansive vision of what, where, and who the African Diaspora is, highlights African knowledge and technologies that developed the Americas, and reveals similarities and differences between African Diasporan communities in distant lands. Tens of millions of Africans were involuntarily scattered throughout the world during centuries of enslavement. The African Diasporan communities that resulted contributed to the creation of the new societies of the Americas and added new presences to old societies elsewhere. Torn from the world they knew, Africans and their descendants preserved ancestral worldviews to which they adapted the cultures of those they encountered to create dynamic fusions that enrich global civilization.