# Conclusion  
I return to my initial words about how to build alternative knowledge regarding Africans and Afrodescendants from the knowledge produced in the diasporas: we should start with Africa and consider the multiple experiences of Africans and their capacity to adapt to new and adverse conditions. Although the place of Africa in the history of African diasporas is central to our understanding, the contributions in this volume confirm that the discussion today must go beyond the famous 'scale of intensity of Africanisms', in my paraphrase of Herskovits (1946, p. 346). African cultures were transformed by individuals and groups. Thus, the term 'Creolization' and other similar terms are applied in various chapters to identify the plasticity and competence of Africans and their descendants when it comes to transitioning between different cultural and political (often micropolitical) spaces.