Ocean region, given that, even in the modern era, African diasporas in the latter part of the world were not solely associated with slave trafficking.  
Faaeza Jasdanwalla discusses the African presence on the island of Janjira (a name that comes from the Arabic jazira, which means 'island'), off the west coast of India, which since the fifteenth century has had a significant population from East Africa. The Africans and their descendants in Janjira were called Sidis. Jasdanwalla writes about the participation of the Sidis in trade networks as sailors, naval commanders and public servants, as well as in other capacities. Two Africans who had come to India as enslaved people in the sixteenth century stood out in the region: Malik Ambar, who became the regent of the Ahmadnagar sultanate in India, and the administrative official Ambar Sainik, who became the Sidi governor of Janjira.  
People from East Africa were also taken to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the final decades of the nineteenth, a great number of Africans were taken to Sistan va Baluchestan through a slave trade network dominated by the Oman sultanate, which extended from East Africa to other regions of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, as we learn from Behnaz Mirzai, the prominent historian of slavery in Iran. She analyses the formation of Afrodescendent communities in southern Iran, Khuzestan, Sistan va Baluchistan and the provinces of Bushehr and Hormozgan and the extent of their integration into the local populations. Mirzai points out that to conduct a critical analysis of enslaved Africans and their descendants in Iran, one must consider the local socioeconomic, cultural, geographic, historical and legal specificities conjunctionally. According to Mirzai, despite ethnocultural variety and general heterogeneity, African traditions have both influenced Iranian culture and been transformed by it.