The 2024 Olympics are over, and people around the world are taking stock, celebrating wins and counting their countries’ medals. For people from South Sudan, their basketball team’s success was a surprise highlight of the games this year.

Ziyad Saleem is a Sudanese American student at UC Berkeley and he’s competing in the summer Olympics, for Sudan — a country that has sent swimmers to the Olympics before — but today, it’s a very different reality.

Catherine Ndungu-Case is the founder of Cheza Nami, an award winning African arts organization. Catherine has led Cheza Nami in pioneering African dance and music in school assemblies across the Bay Area.

Entrepreneur and musician Gatore Mukarhinda spoke with Crosscurrents host Hana Baba for her series "Diaspora Stories."

Oyo is an Afro-South American restaurant- and the founding chef Maurice Dissels came from his home country of Guyana. He grew up in his grandma Oyo’s kitchen, and serves dishes he learned from her.

A young Oakland woman from Sudan is digitizing old music cassettes for a new diaspora generation. What it means to preserve culture in a time of war.