“…Existing discussions of black diplomacy largely draw on the international experiences of Africans in the diaspora and foreign policy targets of African states (cf. Adem, 2008;Blake, 1984;Bryce-Laporte, 1972;Holder, 1983;Johnson, 2014;Krenn, 1999;Nwolise, 1992;Pitre, 1983;Quraishi, 2023;Schoeppner, 2019;Wilson, 1972). In turn, the article builds on the prevalent discussions of power and prestige in international relations (IR) to analyze how the international experiences of African states and black people in general have been shaped by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (T-AST), colonization, and neocolonialism.…”