The Diaspora Salon
Marrakech, Morocco
February 8 – 11, 2026
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A yearly rendezvous celebrating cultural and entrepreneurial initiatives by trailblazers of African ancestry.
An event by us, about us, and for everyone.
Become part of a collective transcending borders by connecting generations of creatives, entrepreneurs, students, thought leaders and their allies. Discover opportunities to develop wealth and projects together, building a new proximity between communities.
In 2025, 27 citizenships gathered in Marrakech.
A platform
for visionaries
Through the Diaspora Salon, a global community fosters networking and collaborative opportunities for all.
3 Core Themes
Where Black knowledge, creativity, and global vision converge to unlock opportunity, forge connection, and move a collective future forward.
1
Blackness as a Global Inheritance
2
The Wealth of Our Identities
3
Creativity, Technologies and Business
Hosted at Jnane Tamsna
The 4-day event will be hosted at Jnane Tamsna, the farm-to-table boutique hotel known for its retreats featuring Nobel, Booker, and Pulitzer Prize winners.
Owned by Meryanne Loum-Martin and her creative and cosmopolitan family, the estate hosts moveable feasts unfolding across the ten-acre property.
A Quote From Our Founder
“Half Senegalese, half Caribbean, and born in Ivory Coast, my life has unfolded at the crossroads of multiple Diaspora cultures. Across the United States, Brazil, France, and England, I have witnessed how deeply we remain separated from one another. Colonialism and slavery fragmented us by design, though our cultural roots remain entwined.
Our dream now is to build a space where the distances imposed upon us can finally be bridged.
Let us gather in the motherland to honor the many expressions of one enduring force: Black Culture.”
— Meryanne Loum-Martin, Founder
“We are organizing the second edition of the Diaspora Salon in Marrakech because the conversations we began there felt both urgent and unfinished.
At a moment when narratives are being flattened, extracted, or automated, the Diaspora Salon is a space to slow down, gather with intention, and reclaim the power of authorship—of our stories, our images, our ideas, and our futures.
By bringing together leading authors, designers, filmmakers, artists, thinkers, and creatives from across the African diaspora, we are affirming Blackness as a global inheritance: plural, dynamic, and deeply rooted. This year’s themes—Reclaiming the Wor(l)d; Writing Our Presence; Futures, Technologies and Business for Generational Wealth; and The Wealth of Our Identities—reflect a shared commitment to presence over erasure, creation over reaction, and long-term vision over short-term gain.
Jnane Tamsna in Marrakech, at the crossroads of Africa, the Arab world, and the global diaspora, offers a symbolic and practical ground for these exchanges. The Diaspora Salon is not a conference, but a living laboratory—where ideas circulate freely, solidarities are formed, and new cultural, economic, and imaginative architectures can emerge.”
— Meryanne Loum-Martin, Mame-Fatou Niang, Claude Grunitzky
