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The divide we are closing
What 400 years of separation looks like today
For centuries, a deliberate lie was told on both sides of the ocean. The diaspora was told Africa did not want them. Africa was told the diaspora had nothing to offer. Both sides were kept apart, and while they were divided, others continued to benefit from that division.
Today, someone in the diaspora can take a DNA test and find out they are 30% Nigerian but find no relatives, no family, and no connections. Not because those relatives do not exist. But because over 97% of Africans are not yet in any DNA database. The bridge has one side. AfriGenetry Link is building the other.
"Someone commented, 'Either science is a scam or the slave trade didn't happen, because I can't find any relatives in Africa. The truth is the system is incomplete. And we are here to complete it."
What we do
How we rebuild the connection
DNA-based reconnection
Connecting diaspora individuals to their ancestral regions and biological relatives in Africa through DNA matching and genealogical support
Campus identity & reconnection tours
Educational activations at universities that connect Black student unions, African student associations, and diaspora students to their heritage and to each other.
Elder oral history preservation
Capturing the stories of elders, the living libraries of African lineage, before that knowledge is lost forever.
Community DNA pop-up events
On-the-ground activations that bring DNA access, education, and guided identity support to underserved communities across Africa and the diaspora.
DNA on wheels — mobile DNA clinics
Mobile outreach brings DNA awareness and education directly into rural communities, churches, schools, and community centers across Africa and the diaspora.
Strategic global partnerships
Building relationships with universities, hospitals, governments, and diaspora organizations across Africa, the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil.
Who this serves
Both sides of the bridge
This work serves both the African continent and the global diaspora, because reconnection requires people on both sides to be part of the system.
Impact we are building
Why it matters
Reconnection is restorative — not just emotional
For many people, the disruption of lineage and identity has lasted generations. Rebuilding that connection, especially through real human relationships, creates opportunities for healing, belonging, and shared progress across borders.
When individuals reconnect not just to places but to people, new relationships form. Families are made whole. Cultural knowledge is restored. And the continent and its diaspora begin to move as one community again, not as strangers separated by an ocean, but as family finding its way back to each other.
WATCH & SUPPORT
The Great Reconnection
The Great Reconnection is AGL's flagship campaign, a movement to reconnect Africa and people of African descent through DNA, storytelling, and shared identity. It is also a documentary that brings this mission to life.
This is more than a project.
It is a return. A restoration. A reconnection.