Lokangaka Losambe is the Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He previously taught African, African Diaspora, and English literatures at universities in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Swaziland, and South Africa. Dr. Losambe also served as the president of the African Literature Association (ALA) in 2012–2013.Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the UNC, Charlotte. He has published collections of poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs, and self-authored and co-authored scholarly books. Dr. Ojaide teaches and publishes on African Literature and Culture, the Folklore of Africa and the African Diaspora, and Globalization in African Poetry.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction: Trends in the New African Diasporic LiteratureLokangaka Losambe and Tanure OjaidePart I: The Sankofan Wave (late 1960s – early 1990s)A. Anglophone Perspectives1. The Shapeshifter in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Migrant WritingGĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ2. Abdulrazak Gurnah and V.S. Naipaul: Memory of Departure vs. Enigma of ArrivalSimon Keith Lewis3. Paradise Destroyed: Exile and Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New NamesJoya Uraizee4. Diaspora as Motif in the Poetry of Jack Mapanje, Frank Chipasula and Lupenga MphandeDike Okoro5. Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Erotics of Black World ArchivesUhuru Portia Phalafala6. Contextualizing Racism and Humanity in Dennis Brutus’s PoetryKehinde Akano7. Zoë Wicomb and the Poetics of Social IronyStefan Helgesson8. ‘Dizzy with the To-ing and Fro-ing’: Diasporic Prose of the ‘New South Africa’Peter Blair9. Cultural Displacement, Identity and Home in Buchi Emecheta’s Diasporic FictionH. Oby Okolocha10. Writing Against the Rift: Ben Okri’s Diasporic Consciousness Defies ClosureRosemary Gray11. Troubadours, They Traverse: Global Vision and Diasporic Imagination in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare and Tijan SallahWumi Raji12. The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place in Tanure Ojaide’s Diasporic PoemsSaeedat Bolajoko Aliyu13. Living in the Interstices: Afropolitanism and the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Alfred KisubiEdoama Odueme14. Tracing the ‘Missing Link’: Postcolonial Reconfigurations and Diasporic Imaginaries in Funso Aiyejina’s WritingOlajumoke Verissimo15. New African Diasporic Drama: Nigerian Meaning-Making Identities and EthosMabel Evwierhoma16. (W)righting the African Diaspora: Tess Onwueme’s Interrogation of African Diasporic Trauma, History, and BelongingMaureen N. EkeB. Francophone Perspectives17. Historical Afroeuropean and Transatlantic Mobilities in Contemporary Francophone Afrodiasporic FictionAnna-Leena Toivanen18. Ivoiritié in Tanella Boni’s Exile DiscourseHonoré Missihoun19. Tale(ing) Africa in a Global Context: War, Nature, and Pandemic in Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda and In the Company of MenZaynab Ango20. Congolese Trasnational/Diasporic Writers and their Multi-Pronged FightsKasongo Mulenda Kapanga Part II: The Janusian Wave (1990s and 2020s)A. Anglophone Perspectives21. Benjamin Kwakye and Okey Ndibe: Migration and Diasporic EncountersJoseph McLaren22. Negotiating Home in the New World African Diasporic Wrtings: The Niger Delta and Black Canadian Geographies in the Poetry of Nduka Otiono and Amatoritsero EdeMathias Iroro Orhero23. Helon Habila’s Narratives: Thematic Visions and Narratology in The Chibok Girls and Travelers.Effiok Bassey Uwatt24. Diasporic Consciousness and Narrative Ambiguity in Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chika UnigweDaria Tunca25. Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late: Engaging the African Immigrant Experience in Belgium, Europe.Enajite Ojaruega26. Chris Abani, The Anthropocene, and Transnational Ecoglobal CriticismSarah E. Turner27. Dinaw Mengestu’s Diasporic PracticeTaylor Eggan28. Cruel Optimism: The Longings of Outsiders Within Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the DreamersJuliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi29. The Poetics of Mobility, Proximity, and Emb’race in Joyce Ash’s A Basket of Flaming Ashes (2010) and Beautiful Fire (2018)Gilbert Shang Ndi30. Holding the Global Gaze: The Image of Africa and the Unapologetic Aesthetics of (Un)Belonging in the Second Wave New African Diasporic Literatures: NoViolet Bulawayo, Sefi Atta, Zukiswa Wanner, and Nana NkwetiMartha Ndakalako31. The Poetics of Unhomeliness and Homemaking in Gabeba Baderoon’s PoetryNasseem Lallmahomed-Aumeerally32. The Transatlantic Turn in Laila Lalami’s Migrant WritingAhmed Idrissi Alami 33. Postcolonial Diasporic Conjunctive Consciousness in Leila Aboulela’s The TranslatorLokangaka LosambeB. Francophone Perspectives34. Fatou Diome, Abdourahman Waberi, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: Authors of French Expression Writing in and for “La Littérature-Monde”Valérie K. Orlando35. Extending the Boundaries of Fiction and Identity in Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar Augustine H. Asaah36. Calixthe Beyala’s Literary Work Travels NorthYlva Lindberg37. Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga: An African-Diasporic AnomalyChristine Grogan38. Politicizing the “Universal” of the African Diasporic Stage Space in FranceBrian Valente-QuinnPart III: Offshoots of the New Arrivants (Born and Growing in Diasporic Spaces)A. Anglophone Perspectives39. Who is Teju Cole? Or Is Teju Cole the Same as Julius?Kenneth Harrow40. Peace, Love, World: Helen Oyeyemi’s Peace Piece in PeacesF. Fiona Moolla41. Between Home and Away: Contemporary Black British PoetryJennifer Leetsch42. Reading the New Diaspora in Yewande Omotoso’s FictionChristopher OumaB. Francophone and Lusophone43. Marie NDiaye’s Un Temps de Saison: Native Hospitality and ‘Going Native’ in Rural FranceJudith Still44. Archives of Absence: Reconstituting Lives Asunder in Yara Monteiro’s “Essa Dama Bate Bué”Daniel F. Silva45. Curly Hair as an Identity Marker: From Angola to PortugalCornesha Tweede46. Crossing and Uncrossing: African Diaspora in Joaquim Arena’s Reparative WritingPatricia Martinho Ferreira Index

Lokangaka Losambe is the Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He previously taught African, African Diaspora, and English literatures at universities in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Swaziland, and South Africa. Dr. Losambe also served as the president of the African Literature Association (ALA) in 2012–2013.Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the UNC, Charlotte. He has published collections of poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs, and self-authored and co-authored scholarly books. Dr. Ojaide teaches and publishes on African Literature and Culture, the Folklore of Africa and the African Diaspora, and Globalization in African Poetry.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction: Trends in the New African Diasporic LiteratureLokangaka Losambe and Tanure OjaidePart I: The Sankofan Wave (late 1960s – early 1990s)A. Anglophone Perspectives1. The Shapeshifter in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Migrant WritingGĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ2. Abdulrazak Gurnah and V.S. Naipaul: Memory of Departure vs. Enigma of ArrivalSimon Keith Lewis3. Paradise Destroyed: Exile and Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New NamesJoya Uraizee4. Diaspora as Motif in the Poetry of Jack Mapanje, Frank Chipasula and Lupenga MphandeDike Okoro5. Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Erotics of Black World ArchivesUhuru Portia Phalafala6. Contextualizing Racism and Humanity in Dennis Brutus’s PoetryKehinde Akano7. Zoë Wicomb and the Poetics of Social IronyStefan Helgesson8. ‘Dizzy with the To-ing and Fro-ing’: Diasporic Prose of the ‘New South Africa’Peter Blair9. Cultural Displacement, Identity and Home in Buchi Emecheta’s Diasporic FictionH. Oby Okolocha10. Writing Against the Rift: Ben Okri’s Diasporic Consciousness Defies ClosureRosemary Gray11. Troubadours, They Traverse: Global Vision and Diasporic Imagination in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare and Tijan SallahWumi Raji12. The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place in Tanure Ojaide’s Diasporic PoemsSaeedat Bolajoko Aliyu13. Living in the Interstices: Afropolitanism and the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Alfred KisubiEdoama Odueme14. Tracing the ‘Missing Link’: Postcolonial Reconfigurations and Diasporic Imaginaries in Funso Aiyejina’s WritingOlajumoke Verissimo15. New African Diasporic Drama: Nigerian Meaning-Making Identities and EthosMabel Evwierhoma16. (W)righting the African Diaspora: Tess Onwueme’s Interrogation of African Diasporic Trauma, History, and BelongingMaureen N. EkeB. Francophone Perspectives17. Historical Afroeuropean and Transatlantic Mobilities in Contemporary Francophone Afrodiasporic FictionAnna-Leena Toivanen18. Ivoiritié in Tanella Boni’s Exile DiscourseHonoré Missihoun19. Tale(ing) Africa in a Global Context: War, Nature, and Pandemic in Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda and In the Company of MenZaynab Ango20. Congolese Trasnational/Diasporic Writers and their Multi-Pronged FightsKasongo Mulenda Kapanga Part II: The Janusian Wave (1990s and 2020s)A. Anglophone Perspectives21. Benjamin Kwakye and Okey Ndibe: Migration and Diasporic EncountersJoseph McLaren22. Negotiating Home in the New World African Diasporic Wrtings: The Niger Delta and Black Canadian Geographies in the Poetry of Nduka Otiono and Amatoritsero EdeMathias Iroro Orhero23. Helon Habila’s Narratives: Thematic Visions and Narratology in The Chibok Girls and Travelers.Effiok Bassey Uwatt24. Diasporic Consciousness and Narrative Ambiguity in Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chika UnigweDaria Tunca25. Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late: Engaging the African Immigrant Experience in Belgium, Europe.Enajite Ojaruega26. Chris Abani, The Anthropocene, and Transnational Ecoglobal CriticismSarah E. Turner27. Dinaw Mengestu’s Diasporic PracticeTaylor Eggan28. Cruel Optimism: The Longings of Outsiders Within Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the DreamersJuliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi29. The Poetics of Mobility, Proximity, and Emb’race in Joyce Ash’s A Basket of Flaming Ashes (2010) and Beautiful Fire (2018)Gilbert Shang Ndi30. Holding the Global Gaze: The Image of Africa and the Unapologetic Aesthetics of (Un)Belonging in the Second Wave New African Diasporic Literatures: NoViolet Bulawayo, Sefi Atta, Zukiswa Wanner, and Nana NkwetiMartha Ndakalako31. The Poetics of Unhomeliness and Homemaking in Gabeba Baderoon’s PoetryNasseem Lallmahomed-Aumeerally32. The Transatlantic Turn in Laila Lalami’s Migrant WritingAhmed Idrissi Alami 33. Postcolonial Diasporic Conjunctive Consciousness in Leila Aboulela’s The TranslatorLokangaka LosambeB. Francophone Perspectives34. Fatou Diome, Abdourahman Waberi, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: Authors of French Expression Writing in and for “La Littérature-Monde”Valérie K. Orlando35. Extending the Boundaries of Fiction and Identity in Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar Augustine H. Asaah36. Calixthe Beyala’s Literary Work Travels NorthYlva Lindberg37. Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga: An African-Diasporic AnomalyChristine Grogan38. Politicizing the “Universal” of the African Diasporic Stage Space in FranceBrian Valente-QuinnPart III: Offshoots of the New Arrivants (Born and Growing in Diasporic Spaces)A. Anglophone Perspectives39. Who is Teju Cole? Or Is Teju Cole the Same as Julius?Kenneth Harrow40. Peace, Love, World: Helen Oyeyemi’s Peace Piece in PeacesF. Fiona Moolla41. Between Home and Away: Contemporary Black British PoetryJennifer Leetsch42. Reading the New Diaspora in Yewande Omotoso’s FictionChristopher OumaB. Francophone and Lusophone43. Marie NDiaye’s Un Temps de Saison: Native Hospitality and ‘Going Native’ in Rural FranceJudith Still44. Archives of Absence: Reconstituting Lives Asunder in Yara Monteiro’s “Essa Dama Bate Bué”Daniel F. Silva45. Curly Hair as an Identity Marker: From Angola to PortugalCornesha Tweede46. Crossing and Uncrossing: African Diaspora in Joaquim Arena’s Reparative WritingPatricia Martinho Ferreira Index

Lokangaka Losambe is the Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He previously taught African, African Diaspora, and English literatures at universities in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Swaziland, and South Africa. Dr. Losambe also served as the president of the African Literature Association (ALA) in 2012–2013.Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the UNC, Charlotte. He has published collections of poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs, and self-authored and co-authored scholarly books. Dr. Ojaide teaches and publishes on African Literature and Culture, the Folklore of Africa and the African Diaspora, and Globalization in African Poetry.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction: Trends in the New African Diasporic LiteratureLokangaka Losambe and Tanure OjaidePart I: The Sankofan Wave (late 1960s – early 1990s)A. Anglophone Perspectives1. The Shapeshifter in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Migrant WritingGĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ2. Abdulrazak Gurnah and V.S. Naipaul: Memory of Departure vs. Enigma of ArrivalSimon Keith Lewis3. Paradise Destroyed: Exile and Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New NamesJoya Uraizee4. Diaspora as Motif in the Poetry of Jack Mapanje, Frank Chipasula and Lupenga MphandeDike Okoro5. Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Erotics of Black World ArchivesUhuru Portia Phalafala6. Contextualizing Racism and Humanity in Dennis Brutus’s PoetryKehinde Akano7. Zoë Wicomb and the Poetics of Social IronyStefan Helgesson8. ‘Dizzy with the To-ing and Fro-ing’: Diasporic Prose of the ‘New South Africa’Peter Blair9. Cultural Displacement, Identity and Home in Buchi Emecheta’s Diasporic FictionH. Oby Okolocha10. Writing Against the Rift: Ben Okri’s Diasporic Consciousness Defies ClosureRosemary Gray11. Troubadours, They Traverse: Global Vision and Diasporic Imagination in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare and Tijan SallahWumi Raji12. The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place in Tanure Ojaide’s Diasporic PoemsSaeedat Bolajoko Aliyu13. Living in the Interstices: Afropolitanism and the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Alfred KisubiEdoama Odueme14. Tracing the ‘Missing Link’: Postcolonial Reconfigurations and Diasporic Imaginaries in Funso Aiyejina’s WritingOlajumoke Verissimo15. New African Diasporic Drama: Nigerian Meaning-Making Identities and EthosMabel Evwierhoma16. (W)righting the African Diaspora: Tess Onwueme’s Interrogation of African Diasporic Trauma, History, and BelongingMaureen N. EkeB. Francophone Perspectives17. Historical Afroeuropean and Transatlantic Mobilities in Contemporary Francophone Afrodiasporic FictionAnna-Leena Toivanen18. Ivoiritié in Tanella Boni’s Exile DiscourseHonoré Missihoun19. Tale(ing) Africa in a Global Context: War, Nature, and Pandemic in Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda and In the Company of MenZaynab Ango20. Congolese Trasnational/Diasporic Writers and their Multi-Pronged FightsKasongo Mulenda Kapanga Part II: The Janusian Wave (1990s and 2020s)A. Anglophone Perspectives21. Benjamin Kwakye and Okey Ndibe: Migration and Diasporic EncountersJoseph McLaren22. Negotiating Home in the New World African Diasporic Wrtings: The Niger Delta and Black Canadian Geographies in the Poetry of Nduka Otiono and Amatoritsero EdeMathias Iroro Orhero23. Helon Habila’s Narratives: Thematic Visions and Narratology in The Chibok Girls and Travelers.Effiok Bassey Uwatt24. Diasporic Consciousness and Narrative Ambiguity in Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chika UnigweDaria Tunca25. Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late: Engaging the African Immigrant Experience in Belgium, Europe.Enajite Ojaruega26. Chris Abani, The Anthropocene, and Transnational Ecoglobal CriticismSarah E. Turner27. Dinaw Mengestu’s Diasporic PracticeTaylor Eggan28. Cruel Optimism: The Longings of Outsiders Within Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the DreamersJuliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi29. The Poetics of Mobility, Proximity, and Emb’race in Joyce Ash’s A Basket of Flaming Ashes (2010) and Beautiful Fire (2018)Gilbert Shang Ndi30. Holding the Global Gaze: The Image of Africa and the Unapologetic Aesthetics of (Un)Belonging in the Second Wave New African Diasporic Literatures: NoViolet Bulawayo, Sefi Atta, Zukiswa Wanner, and Nana NkwetiMartha Ndakalako31. The Poetics of Unhomeliness and Homemaking in Gabeba Baderoon’s PoetryNasseem Lallmahomed-Aumeerally32. The Transatlantic Turn in Laila Lalami’s Migrant WritingAhmed Idrissi Alami 33. Postcolonial Diasporic Conjunctive Consciousness in Leila Aboulela’s The TranslatorLokangaka LosambeB. Francophone Perspectives34. Fatou Diome, Abdourahman Waberi, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: Authors of French Expression Writing in and for “La Littérature-Monde”Valérie K. Orlando35. Extending the Boundaries of Fiction and Identity in Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar Augustine H. Asaah36. Calixthe Beyala’s Literary Work Travels NorthYlva Lindberg37. Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga: An African-Diasporic AnomalyChristine Grogan38. Politicizing the “Universal” of the African Diasporic Stage Space in FranceBrian Valente-QuinnPart III: Offshoots of the New Arrivants (Born and Growing in Diasporic Spaces)A. Anglophone Perspectives39. Who is Teju Cole? Or Is Teju Cole the Same as Julius?Kenneth Harrow40. Peace, Love, World: Helen Oyeyemi’s Peace Piece in PeacesF. Fiona Moolla41. Between Home and Away: Contemporary Black British PoetryJennifer Leetsch42. Reading the New Diaspora in Yewande Omotoso’s FictionChristopher OumaB. Francophone and Lusophone43. Marie NDiaye’s Un Temps de Saison: Native Hospitality and ‘Going Native’ in Rural FranceJudith Still44. Archives of Absence: Reconstituting Lives Asunder in Yara Monteiro’s “Essa Dama Bate Bué”Daniel F. Silva45. Curly Hair as an Identity Marker: From Angola to PortugalCornesha Tweede46. Crossing and Uncrossing: African Diaspora in Joaquim Arena’s Reparative WritingPatricia Martinho Ferreira Index