Exploring Diversity within Ghanaian Diaspora Communities

The past few decades has witnessed a proliferate debates on diaspora communities, the role of diasporas in the development in both origin and destination countries has been emphasised in recent literature. Yet little has been written specifically about internal divisions within the Ghanaian diaspora. Drawing on interviews with, and observations of both first and second generation Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands and in the U.K., it seeks to explore the views of diasporas on the internal diversity within one national diasporic community. This research asks why are there so many Ghanaian diaspora communities in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and why can’t there be one bigger umbrella Ghanaian diasporan community in these destination countries? how do the diasporas cope and collaborate among themselves: the reasons for the diversity in the Ghanaian diaspora community as well as the factors shaping the decision of people to form and operate these many groups/organisations, vis-a-vis the diversity within the diaspora. Relevance to