West African Migrations

Chapter 1 West African Migrations and Globalization: Introduction

Chapter 2 “You can’t go Home no More”: Africans in America in the Age of Globalization

Chapter 3 Transnational Identity Formation as a Kaleidoscopic Process: Social Location, Geography, and the Spirit Of Critical Engagement

Chapter 4 What to Wear? Dress And Transnational African Identity

Chapter 5 Insurgent Transnational Conversations in Nigeria’s “Nollywood” Cinema

Chapter 6 Centripetal Forces: Reconciling Cosmopolitan Lives and Local Loyalty in a Malian Transnational Social Field

Chapter 7 Toward an African Muslim Globality: The Parading of Transnational Identities In Black America

Chapter 8 African Migrant Worker Militancy in the Global North: Labor Contracting and Independent Worker Organizing in New York City

Chapter 10 Arrested Nationalism, Imposed Transnationalism, and the African Literature Classroom: One Nigerian Writer’s Learning Curve