New Hidden Narratives of African Migration

Abiodun Adeniyi is Professor of Communication at Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria, and a pioneering scholar in diasporic communication. His teaching and research also focus on development and strategic communication. He holds a B.Sc. from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and an M.A. (Chevening Scholar) and a PhD from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.Widely travelled within Africa and beyond, his published works include Diasporic Communication in the Digital Age (2021), and the co-edited volume Media and the National Security Question: Communicating (In)security in Nigeria, West Africa, and the Sahel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). He is completing a forthcoming book on Ancestral Villages, Digital Homes: Memory, Migration, and the Transformation of Belonging in Urban Africa.

• Chapter 1: AFRICAN MIGRATION BEYOND THE HEADLINES.- Chapter 2: EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF LOST HOMES AND FRACTURED BONDS IN DISPLACEMENT.- Chapter 3: THE STRANGER WITHIN: CULTURE, IDENTITY AND THE DIASPORIC SELF.- Chapter 4: WHO STAYS, WHO GOES, AND WHO CHANGES: GENDERED JOURNEYS AND FAMILY SHIFTS.- Chapter 5: UNSPOKEN JOURNEYS:  THE SILENCED HISTORIES OF AFRICAN MIGRATIO.- Chapter 6: WHY THE STORIES WE DON’T HEAR MATTER: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIDDEN NARRATIVES IN AFRICAN MIGRATION.- Chapter 7: TRACES IN THE MARGINS: OBJECTS, RITUALS, AND THE INTIMATE ARCHIVES OF AFRICAN MIGRATION.- Chapter 8: TRAPPED IN TRANSIT: AFRICAN STATES, COLONIAL LEGACIES, AND THE FRAGILITY OF MIGRATION GOVERNANCE.- Chapter 9: CONTESTED MEANINGS, RETURNEE KNOWLEDGE, LOCAL REALITIES AND THE POLITICS OF EPISTEMIC SILENCE.- Chapter 10: TFRICAN MIGRATION IN THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE AND DIGITAL BELONGING.- Chapter 11: FROM SILENCE TO SIGNAL: AFRICAN MIGRANTS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND THE DISRUPTION OF DOMINANT NARRATIVES.