Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. (Shifting) spaces and (fixed) crossroads: the African diaspora and the imaginations of Africa
Chapter 2. Culture and cultural politics in Cherno Njie's "Sweat is invisible in the rain"
Chapter 3. The representation of tradition and modernity in Emmanuel Babatunde's "Kelebogile"
Chapter 4. Deriving meaning: nuances of language, nodes of orality, and sense of communitarianism in Michael Afolayan's "Fate of Our Mothers"
Chapter 5. The density of cultures: A. B. Assensoh's "Journeys"
Chapter 6. Migrant (un)homeliness: universalism and global Identity in the memoirs of A. B. Assensoh and Cherno Njie
Chapter 7. Contrasting experiences of old and new homes in the new African diaspora memoirs
Conclusion. From slave narratives to freedom narratives: a genealogy of immigrant stories
Notes
Bibliography
Index.