As a result of the African Diaspora, the population of African descendants is growing in different parts of the world. In the Americas and the Caribbean Islands, while the African descendants are still in the minority, their cultural and socio-economic impacts are recognized. In contrary, despite the growing but still very small population of African descendants in Europe and Asia, their cultural and socio-economic impact is not recognized and in fact classified as negligible. In addition to this, the media in general tends to be biased in their reports on issues concerning Africa and African descendants. It is true that Africa is facing some political and economic problems. The critics should however admit that many of these problems are the result of colonial assault inflicted upon Africa and the unjustified global market imbalances. This problem by the side, Africa remains a rich continent with natural resources, beautiful landscapes, national parks and game reserves as well as interesting people and culture.

The African descendants communities in different parts of Europe and Asia are growing into multicultural societies, the way it is in the Americas and the Caribbean Islands. This situation raises the issue of heritage identification as the case was in the Americas and the Caribbean Islands. The African descendants in North America, in the course of their fight for heritage identification and recognition, fought through the names “Negro” and “Afro-American” to finally arrive at the recognized name “African-American”. 

The African descendants in Europe and Asia are now going through the same process of finding commonly accepted and recognized name. In Germany for example, names like Afro-Deutsche, Schwarze-Deutsche, Afro-German, Black-German and lately African-German are used to refer to African descendants in Germany. The Afritopic Magazine team prefers to use the prefix “African-“ when referring to African descendants anywhere in the world, in conformity with African-American.           continue>

Nevertheless, since the countries in Europe are coming together under the umbrella of the European Union (EU), the African descendants in Europe are now generally named “African-Europeans”.  

The issue of identification is one. Other issues facing African descendants are the delicate issues of acceptance and recognition. The problems of acceptance and recognition are strongly connected with communication problems and false information, which result in pre-conceived biased opinions. African descendants cannot leave the task of improving their image to the politicians or the western media. It is necessary that African descendants combine every effort to provide and share positive, educative information concerning their rich heritage. Afritopic Magazine team has devoted itself to providing its readers with very educative, highly motivational and inspirational information about Africa and its descendants. In order to achieve its goals, Afritopic Magazine will partner with accredited institutions/organizations as well as individuals. The synergy effect derived from all partnerships would then be used to accelerate the process of acceptance and recognition of African descendants in all communities.

We thank you all in advance for your support and hopefully with combined efforts, our goals would be achieved.

Yours truly,

The Afritopic Magazine Team 

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