The Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary is an annual merit by the Africa Film Academy to reward the best diaspora documentaries for the year. Prior to the creation of the category in 2011, diaspora documentaries submitted normally compete with African documentaries for the Best Documentary category.

+ Best Diaspora Documentary Year Documentary Recipient Result2011Stubborn as a MuleMiller Bargeron Jr & Arcelous Deiels MomentumZeinabu Irene DavisIf Not NowLouis HaggartMotherlandOwen Alik ShahadahChangementChiara Cavallazi2012The Education of Auma ObamaWhite WashAlmendron Mi CorazonAll Me: The Life And Times Of Winfred Hubert2013Fan Do BrasilMy Thiero BoysRed, White, Black And Blue2014Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a PeopleFinding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to ChinaFreedom SummerNo Bois Man, No Frad2015The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Jimmy Goes To NollywoodBound: Africans Vs African Americans Black Panther Woman 2016Spirits of RebellionAmerica’s BluesCan You Dig This201713th (film)I Am Not Your NegroThe Vietnam War (TV series)Horace Tapscott, Musical Griot2018Barrows: Freedom FighterI Gotta Be Me (webseries)Evolutionary Blues2019My Friend Fela Wax Print 1 FABRIC, 4 continent Drugs as Weapons Against UsDare to DreamThe Guardian of No Return 2020Becoming BlackRevolution From Afar Meeting My FatherIf Objects Could Speak2021African Redemption: the Life of Marcus Garvey Akwaaba Race Today Documentary

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