Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary
# Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary

The Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary is an annual merit by the Africa Film Academy to reward the best diaspora documentaries for the year. Prior to the creation of the category in 2011, diaspora documentaries submitted normally compete with African documentaries for the Best Documentary category.

Best Diaspora Documentary :

| Year | Documentary | Recipient | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2011 | Stubborn as a Mule | Miller Bargeron Jr & Arcelous Deiels | Won |
| 2011 | Momentum | Zeinabu Irene Davis | Nominated |
| 2011 | If Not Now | Louis Haggart | Nominated |
| 2011 | Motherland | Owen Alik Shahadah | Nominated |
| 2011 | Changement | Chiara Cavallazi | Nominated |
| 2012 | The Education of Auma Obama | | Won |
| 2012 | White Wash | | Nominated |
| 2012 | Almendron Mi Corazon | | Nominated |
| 2012 | All Me: The Life And Times Of Winfred Hubert | | Nominated |
| 2013 | Fan Do Brasil | | Won |
| 2013 | My Thiero Boys | | Nominated |
| 2013 | Red, White, Black And Blue | | Nominated |
| 2014 | Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People | | Won |
| 2014 | Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China | | Nominated |
| 2014 | Freedom Summer | | Nominated |
| 2014 | No Bois Man, No Frad | | Nominated |
| 2015 | The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | | Won |
| 2015 | Jimmy Goes To Nollywood | | Nominated |
| 2015 | Bound: Africans Vs African Americans | | Nominated |
| 2015 | Black Panther Woman | | Nominated |
| 2016 | Spirits of Rebellion | | Won |
| 2016 | America’s Blues | | Nominated |
| 2016 | Can You Dig This | | Nominated |
| 2017 | 13th (film) | | Won |
| 2017 | I Am Not Your Negro | | Nominated |
| 2017 | The Vietnam War (TV series) | | Nominated |
| 2017 | Horace Tapscott, Musical Griot | | Nominated |
| 2018 | Barrows: Freedom Fighter | | Won |
| 2018 | I Gotta Be Me (webseries) | | Nominated |
| 2018 | Evolutionary Blues | | Nominated |
| 2019 | My Friend Fela | | Won |
| 2019 | Wax Print 1 FABRIC, 4 continent | | Nominated |
| 2019 | Drugs as Weapons Against Us | | Nominated |
| 2019 | Dare to Dream | | Nominated |
| 2019 | The Guardian of No Return | | Nominated |
| 2020 | Becoming Black | | Won |
| 2020 | Revolution From Afar | | Nominated |
| 2020 | Meeting My Father | | Nominated |
| 2020 | If Objects Could Speak | | Nominated |
| 2021 | African Redemption: the Life of Marcus Garvey | | Won |
| 2021 | Akwaaba | | Nominated |
| 2021 | Race Today Documentary | | Nominated |
