Thats why I said its utterly misleading to call ourselves Africans when we've been separated from Africa for well over 380 years and have a history and culture of our own.
Please explain in detail what we have in common so much more, I'd like to know. I've been to Africa too, mostly the French speaking countries, Senegal, and a Senegalese Wolof is different culturally from a Nigerien Hausa. Thats being the case, please explain how African-Americans are so much close. I'm not saying we've totally lost our Africaness in some things, but there is a clear distinction. Overstating similarities in the name of Pan-Africanity doesn't erase the distinctions.
Call yourself whatever you like, but the fact remains you *ARE* an *AMERICAN* of African descent, not an African. I went to Africa and the Africans there clearly identified me as an American, though they did acknowledge I was black.