This special issue of Transition updates Countee Cullen's iconic question, examining the meaning of the continent for member of African diasporas old and new.

Table of contents

Introduction
Bénédicte Ledent and Daria Tunca

Negotiating Africa Now
Madhu Krishnan

The Path Between Two Points
Julie Kleinman

An Afropean Travel Narrative
Johny Pitts

The Newly Black Americans
Louis Chude-Sokei

Happiness • Fiction
Chika Unigwe

“Some Connection with the Place”
Jackie Kay and Petra Tournay-Theodotou