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This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and America.
List of contents
Introduction: Decolonial migrations in African diasporic literatures
1.
Coloniality, migrancy and the African migrant experience in literatures of migration2. Coloniality of being and the immigrant experience in No-Violet Bulawayo's
We Need New Names (2013) 3. Race and Coloniality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's
Americanah (2013)
4.
The violence of modernity: Race, Class, and the everyday immigrant experience in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers (2016)5. Black-on-black Violence, Estrangement, Home, Belonging, and the Coloniality of Being in Dave Eggers'
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006)
6. Coloniality of migration and the racialised immigrant in Helon Habila's
Travellers (2019)
7. Coloniality, (i)mmobility and African migrancy
About the author
Peter Moopi is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Rodwell Makombe is Professor in the Department of English at the North-West University, South Africa. He is a previous fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (2018-2019), the University of Michigan's Presidential Scholarship Programme (UMAPS) (2022) and a rated researcher of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.
