"Within African imaginations, too, 'Africa' came into existence through the slave trade and colonialization." p. 9

The concept of blackness as a collective is not established until post-Atlantic Slave trade. Where thereafter there is a bundling of different cultural and regional groups not through their unique heritages (including language, culture and region) but through a somewhat shared range of darker complexions.

"European travelers to West and Central Africa helped to invent 'Africa' (and African Americans) when they purchased people who had been severed from the family relationships and the linguistic and political affiliations that gave them identities as persons." p. 9

The black diaspora and folks' broader desire to connect to a home (besides the State in which they were born to) that is unidentifiable is what has lead many folks a part of the black diaspora who are unable to know the region, country or tribe of their ancestors to instead connect to the broader continent of Africa; this broader connection to the continent rather than one specific region has lead to different cultural elements from different countries and regions of Africa resonating with black diasporic populations, such as Kwanzaa, adinkra and daishiki. All of which have origins spanning across the African continent including West, Central and Southern Africa.

I also find the line "And death shall be no more, comma, Death thou shalt die" to also be very important. With death often being viewed as the ultimate end, it is interesting to think of death also dying (perhaps indication of an afterlife?)