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An interactive map of the African continent and the diaspora is planned. Until then, here are the entries grouped by region.

Abydos and throughout Egypt (Kemet)

Across Africa: Nile Valley, Sahara, Horn of Africa, Great Lakes, Sahel

Alabama and Florida, United States

Alabama and Michigan, United States

Alabama, Indiana and Illinois, United States

Alabama; Arkansas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Los Angeles

Ancient Egypt (Kemet); modern Kemetic communities worldwide

Around Lake Chad: parts of present-day Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon

Baltimore, Maryland; New York, United States

Bandiagara Escarpment, central Mali (extending into Burkina Faso)

Blue Mountains (Portland), Jamaica; origin likely Gold Coast (Ghana)

Borana Oromo lands, southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya

Boston, Massachusetts

Brazil (especially Salvador da Bahia)

Brooklyn, New York and Washington, D.C., United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Burkina Faso

Cartagena / Bolívar, Colombia

Central Africa (Kingdom of Kongo, present-day Angola/DR Congo)

Central Nigeria, including the Jos Plateau, north of the Benue River

Charleston, South Carolina

Chicago, Illinois (born Arkansas City, Arkansas)

Chicago, Illinois and New York, United States

Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia; St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois, United States

Columbus County and Durham, North Carolina, United States

Continental North America, especially African American communities in the United States

Cuba

Cuba; spread to Puerto Rico, the wider Americas and the United States

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Demopolis and Birmingham, Alabama, United States

East Africa (Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia)

East Africa (Kenya)

East Africa (Shewa and Ethiopia)

East Africa (south-central Uganda, Lake Victoria)

East Africa (Tanzania)

Egypt

Egypt (Akhetaten / Amarna)

Egypt (Kemet)

Egypt (Kemet) and Lower Nubia

Egypt (Kemet), later Greece and the Roman Empire

Egypt (Memphis, Saqqara)

Egypt (Thebes, Avaris)

Egypt (Thebes)

Egypt (Upper and Lower Egypt)

Egypt and Nubia; campaigns in the Levant

Egypt; campaigns in the Levant, Syria and Nubia

Ejisu, Asante (present-day Ghana); exiled to the Seychelles

Ethiopia

Ethiopia (birthplace per sources); United States (Harlem, New York)

Ethiopia (headquarters Addis Ababa) and the diaspora

Forest region of present-day southern Nigeria (Benin City, Edo State)

Gao and the middle Niger, West Africa (present-day Mali and Niger)

Georgia and Chicago, United States

Ghana (Gold Coast)

Giza and Dahshur, Nile Valley (Kemet)

Giza, Egypt (Kemet)

Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde

Guyana; Jamaica; Tanzania

Guyana; United States (Rutgers, New Jersey)

Haiti

Haiti (Saint-Domingue)

Haiti and its diaspora

Hampton, Virginia, United States

Harlem, New York City

Harlem, New York City, United States, with related activity in other cities and abroad

Henrico County and Richmond, Virginia

Hermopolis and throughout Egypt (Kemet)

Iberian Peninsula and North Africa (Maghreb)

Illinois (Metropolis, Lovejoy, Chicago) and St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Inland Niger Delta, Mali

Ishango, near Lake Edward, Democratic Republic of the Congo (now in Brussels)

Jamaica

Jamaica, United States and England

Jamaica; now worldwide

Kilwa Kisiwani island off southern Tanzania, on the East African (Swahili) coast

Kingdom of Kush (Sudan)

Kush (Meroë, Nubia)

Kush (Napata, Nubia) and Egypt

Kush (Nubia) and Egypt

Kush (Sudan) and Memphis, Egypt

Lalibela, Amhara, northern Ethiopia

Limpopo–Shashe confluence, South Africa (bordering Botswana and Zimbabwe)

Mali Empire, West Africa

Martinique and Paris, France

Martinique, France, Algeria and Tunisia

Maryland and the federal district (Washington, D.C.), United States

Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Washington, D.C., United States

Maryland, New York and South Carolina, United States

Maryland; the Arctic

Massachusetts, North America

Massachusetts, United States, and Ghana

Massachusetts, United States, and Sierra Leone

Maywood and Chicago, Illinois

Meroë, Sudan

Mississippi and Chicago, Illinois, United States; Paris, France

Mississippi, Tennessee and Chicago, United States

Mississippi, United States

Mississippi; Utah; Los Angeles, California

Missouri and New York, United States

Missouri, Arkansas, California and North Carolina, United States; Egypt and Ghana

Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Alabama, United States

Missouri, West Virginia and Virginia, United States

Ndongo and Matamba, present-day Angola

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States and Paris, France

New York (Harlem) and Los Angeles, California, United States

New York, Massachusetts and Michigan, United States

Nigeria (born Ogidi, eastern Nigeria)

Nile Valley (Kemet)

Nile Valley (Kemet), especially Asyut and Thebes

Nile Valley, northeast Africa

North Africa and Iberia (Tangier, Gibraltar, Toledo)

North and West Africa (Sahara, Morocco) and al-Andalus

Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea (Tigray highlands, Red Sea coast)

Nubia, middle Nile valley (present-day Sudan)

Nubian Eastern Desert and Egypt

Oakland, California

Ohio and New York, United States

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Tuskegee, Alabama; New York, United States

Ontario, Canada and Michigan, United States

Paramaribo, Suriname (Dutch Guiana) and Lynn, Massachusetts, United States

Parts of present-day Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo (capital Mbanza Kongo)

Pennsylvania, Chicago and Washington, D.C., United States

Pennsylvania; New York; national

Pernambuco and Alagoas, northeastern Brazil

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; later the U.S. South and Africa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Seattle, Washington, United States

Present-day southeastern Mauritania and western Mali, West Africa (11th-century capital probably Koumbi Saleh)

Present-day southern and central Ghana, centered on Kumasi

Richmond, Virginia

Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and France

Saint-Domingue (Haiti), Caribbean

Saint-Domingue (Haiti); Chicago and Peoria, Illinois; St. Charles, Missouri, United States

San Francisco and Oakland, California, United States

Seattle, Washington and Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Senegal (studied and worked in Paris and Dakar)

South Africa

South Africa (Eastern Cape)

South Carolina and Washington, D.C., United States; Europe

South Carolina; Daytona Beach, Florida; Washington, D.C.

Southampton County, Virginia, United States

Southeastern Zimbabwe (near Masvingo), Zimbabwe Plateau

Southern Africa (Mashonaland, Zimbabwe)

Southern Africa (Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

Southern Africa: northern Zimbabwe, the Zambezi valley and central Mozambique

Southern Red Sea / Horn of Africa (location debated)

St Vincent; Caribbean coast of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua; diaspora in the US

Temple of Hathor, Dendera, Upper Egypt (now in the Louvre, Paris)

Texas; Chicago; France

Thebes, Egypt (Kemet)

Timbuktu and the Niger Bend, Mali

Topeka, Kansas and Chicago, Illinois, United States

Trinidad; United States; United Kingdom

Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

United States

United States (Alabama; Harlem, New York)

United States (California); global travel (Egypt, India, Asia, Europe)

United States (Chicago; Washington, D.C.)

United States (Georgia; Philadelphia)

United States (Harlem, New York)

United States (Kentucky, Ohio)

United States (Louisiana, Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, New York)

United States (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York)

United States (Mississippi; New York)

United States (New York); Ghana

United States (Ohio, New York, New Jersey)

United States (Portland, Oregon)

United States (South Carolina; Washington, D.C.); field research in Ghana

United States (Texas, Denver, San Francisco, Atlanta)

United States (Texas; Chicago)

United States (Washington, D.C.); Egypt (Luxor)

United States (West Virginia; Oklahoma; Arizona)

United States and France

Upper Nubia, around Kerma on the Nile's Dongola Reach, northern Sudan

Veracruz, New Spain (Mexico)

Virginia and Washington, D.C., United States

Virginia; North Carolina; New York; the U.S. South

Virginia; West Virginia; Tuskegee, Alabama

Washington, D.C., New York and North Carolina, United States; Montreal, Canada

West Africa (Ile-Ife, southwestern Nigeria)

West Africa (Manding, present-day Mali and Guinea)

West Africa (northern Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon)

West Africa (present-day Benin)

West Africa (Senegambia); Boston, Massachusetts; London, England

West Africa (Songhai Empire, Gao, present-day Mali)

West Africa (southwestern Nigeria, Benin)

West Africa (Timbuktu and region, Mali)

West Africa (Timbuktu, Songhai) and Morocco (Marrakesh)

West Africa (Upper Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire)

West Africa (Zazzau/Zaria, Hausaland, northern Nigeria)

West Africa, Mesoamerica, Atlantic

West of Lake Turkana, northwestern Kenya

Western (Nubian) Desert, southern Egypt, west of Abu Simbel

Western Sudan and the upper and middle Niger River valley, West Africa

Yorubaland (Nigeria and Benin) and the diaspora