Afropolitanism And The Crises Of Identity In Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah And Teju Cole's Open City

This is my B.A. long essay submitted to the department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria where I bagged Bachelor of Arts in English. AbstractThe experience of migration, exile, globalisation, identity, and their effects of hybridity, poly valency, Afropolitanism, cultural fusion, cross-ethnicity, transnationality and intermixture have been gaining prominence in literary productions for many decades now largely due to globalisation and increasing years of diasporic living. Afropolitanism, in particular, is a sub-narrative of Postcolonial discourse rooted in African centred cosmopolitani…