Fassil Demissie is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, DePaul University. He has previously edited Postcolonial African Cities and has served as co-editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, both published by Routledge. He co-edited The Black Body, Imagining, Writing and (Re)Reading (University of South Africa Press). His new current project is Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (forthcoming, Ashgate).

• 1. African diaspora and the metropolis: an introduction 2. Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and the structure of Black metropolitan life 3. Richard Wright and African francophone intellectuals: a reassessment of the 1956 Congress of Black Writers in Paris 4. American philanthropy and African education: African students in the metropolis in the 1960s 5. ‘In my Senegalese quality and as a compatriot’: Senegalese students in the metropolis and the language of affinity, 1880_1890 6. Paradoxes of diaspora, global identity and human rights: the deportation of Nigerians in Ireland 7. Pulling the coat: postcolonial performativity in Black British women’s drama 8. From mirage to image: Africa on film in the metropolis, 1955-1975

Fassil Demissie is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, DePaul University. He has previously edited Postcolonial African Cities and has served as co-editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, both published by Routledge. He co-edited The Black Body, Imagining, Writing and (Re)Reading (University of South Africa Press). His new current project is Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (forthcoming, Ashgate).

• 1. African diaspora and the metropolis: an introduction 2. Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and the structure of Black metropolitan life 3. Richard Wright and African francophone intellectuals: a reassessment of the 1956 Congress of Black Writers in Paris 4. American philanthropy and African education: African students in the metropolis in the 1960s 5. ‘In my Senegalese quality and as a compatriot’: Senegalese students in the metropolis and the language of affinity, 1880_1890 6. Paradoxes of diaspora, global identity and human rights: the deportation of Nigerians in Ireland 7. Pulling the coat: postcolonial performativity in Black British women’s drama 8. From mirage to image: Africa on film in the metropolis, 1955-1975

Fassil Demissie is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, DePaul University. He has previously edited Postcolonial African Cities and has served as co-editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, both published by Routledge. He co-edited The Black Body, Imagining, Writing and (Re)Reading (University of South Africa Press). His new current project is Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (forthcoming, Ashgate).

• 1. African diaspora and the metropolis: an introduction 2. Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and the structure of Black metropolitan life 3. Richard Wright and African francophone intellectuals: a reassessment of the 1956 Congress of Black Writers in Paris 4. American philanthropy and African education: African students in the metropolis in the 1960s 5. ‘In my Senegalese quality and as a compatriot’: Senegalese students in the metropolis and the language of affinity, 1880_1890 6. Paradoxes of diaspora, global identity and human rights: the deportation of Nigerians in Ireland 7. Pulling the coat: postcolonial performativity in Black British women’s drama 8. From mirage to image: Africa on film in the metropolis, 1955-1975