ABSTRACT
After Taiye Selasi’s enthusiastic vindication of the term ‘Afropolitan’, discussions of Afropolitanism have been taking place for years with a special focus on the features that qualify a person as such. However, they have hardly considered the question of self-identification. This paper examines this issue, as well as the role of writing in demonstrating its author’s involvement in the new conceptualisation of identity suggested by Selasi. The analysis is carried out by focusing on two widely acclaimed recent writers: Aminatta Forna and Chika Unigwe, both members of a new generation of writers but with different backgrounds in terms of social belonging and diasporic experience.
