In the African diaspora, loss and alienation and the concomitant search for justice find expression in all provinces of the arts, politics and religion, as exemplified by a host of musical genres (soul, reggae, jazz and so on), any number of paintings, the Garvey movement of the 1920s and various messianic groups in the Caribbean. Forms of religious devotion and practices, such as Pocomania and Voodoo in Jamaica and Haiti respectively, illustrate this point. Even within Christian denominations, the forms of worship and the sense of spirituality draw on retentions of Africa. In short, Africa reverberates in all forms of daily life because of what people feel and believe connects them with an African past of one kind or another.  
As with the Jewish diaspora, the notion of return is very important to the African diaspora. Those who do not practically return - by far the majority nonetheless retain and keep alive the notion of 'return' in their imaginations as an aspiration from which their offspring may pick up or retain their integrated status in the majority society. Those who remain in 'exile' may nonetheless support those who have indeed gone on to repair the breach, sometimes to disastrous effect. The place to which the diasporan feels that he or she belongs may not necessarily bear any resemblance to the historical reality. The Rastafarian version of the African narrative may serve as an illustration.