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[^0]:    2 Logically speaking, Gilroy's focus on a shared Atlantic border and history of slavery should also incorporate the Lusophone and Hispanophone black communities of the Caribbean, as well as of Central and South America. However, although he does not explicitly reject this possibility, neither does Gilroy include those communities, whether implicitly or explicitly.  
African Literatures); and finally, (3) those, such as the Africanist scholars Charles Piot (Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic, 2001) and Dagmawi Woubshet (The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS, 2015), who question the logic of Gilroy's use of Africa as a space forever locked in the past and ignored in its present incarnations despite its continuing, vibrant engagement with and influence on contemporary black diasporic communities.