Migration and Displacement in Africa

Abdul Karim Bangura is Researcher-in Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at American University’s Center for Global Peace, USA.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbdul Karim BanguraChapter 1: Chibundu Onuzo’s Sankofa and Dual Stance of Migration and Identity ReconstructionSomtochukwu J. Metu and Ihuoma OkechukwuChapter 2: Empty Villages, Empty Food Baskets: The Rural-Urban Migration Story of AfricaCecy Edijala BalogunChapter 3: Communal Restoration and Varied Encounters in Forced Migration: An Ubuntu PerspectiveAdebimpe Desire FashinaChapter 4: COVID-19 Pandemic, Livelihoods, and Copying Strategies among the Batwa Minority Communities in Uganda Julius NiringiyimanaChapter 5: Intersecting Exclusions: Queer Migrations, Queer Displacements, and Queer DislocationsPamela Anyango OlooChapter 6: Enhancing Post-traumatic Growth through the Recounting of Trauma NarrativesAdebimpe Desire Fashina Chapter 7: Climate Mobility in East Africa and the Great Horn of AfricaChris A. ShisanyaChapter 8: Weak Institutions, Deneocoloniality, and Youth MigrationEmmanuel Vincent Nelson KallonChapter 9: Navigating Complexity: Migration Dynamics within AfricaSeun BamideleChapter 10: Migration and Displacement in Nigerian Drama: Focus on Soji Cole’s Embers and Ahmed Yerima’s JakadiyaBeatrice Nwawuloke OnuohaChapter 11: Technology and Pre-teen Migrants' Feeling of Belonging: Bridging Distances DigitallyAdebimpe Desire Fashina and Adedeji Adediran OgungbolaIndex

What does it mean to be forced out of one's home within the African continent because of age, climate change, disease, identity, or sexual orientation? Who provides the healing? What is our responsibility? In this volume, Abdul Karim Bangura and the contributors provide answers to these questions through their rigorous research, forcing us to ask ourselves what it means to be human!