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The African diaspora experienced by immigrants and students leaving for Portugal and Brazil, coming from the Portuguese speaking African countries (PALOP) -- Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe -- is here the theme in discussion. They are young people of the so-called immigrant generation, the "Dangerous Generation" in the eyes of the European world, of Portugal, not less dangerous, however, in the Brazilian case. At stake, their social patrimony and heritage constituted by family and collective memory, based on the African world and the migratory context. This paper focuses on African districts in Portugal, "Aldeias d'Africa", and on young university students living in shared apartments and student boards in Campinas, Belo Horizonte, and Fortaleza. This discussion encompasses what characterizes them in terms of africanity and blackness constructed with their movings, and their private stories which reveal a more general history of a black, African and foreign people in the "land of others". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]