Staying Connected to Home Across Generations

For Azande families who have settled outside South Sudan, DR Congo, and the Central African Republic — in Europe, North America, Australia, the Middle East, and beyond — staying connected to language, culture, and extended family often becomes harder with each generation.

Children raised abroad may grow up speaking the language of their new country fluently, while Zande becomes something spoken only with grandparents, or not at all. Traditions once passed down naturally in daily life can start to feel distant or unfamiliar.

This is not a problem unique to the Azande — it's something every diaspora community navigates. But it is something worth actively working against, rather than accepting as inevitable.

This platform is one small tool for that: a place where diaspora members can read real history, contribute to a living dictionary, and stay connected to community news from home, wherever "home" now means for them.

If you are raising children in the diaspora, or simply navigating this yourself, we'd welcome your reflections as a post here — your experience is exactly the kind of story this space was built to hold.