Climate change is fast becoming an existential crisis for the universe. It is, however, more negatively impactful for the African diaspora, whose vulnerabilities are specifi cally related to low economic development and global injustice. Acknowledging the political, economic, and social foun dations of the problem, it is important to identify the challenges and op portunities facing the diaspora. Teaching at a historically black university in the southern United States and experiencing the almost annual trauma of weather disasters, I am reminded of an old African proverb that coun sels us: “if you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together.”