ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses multifaceted forms of intra-continental migration such as ‘voluntary’ and ‘forced’, while being wary of totalising categories and of the porous boundaries between different forms of migration. The controversial figure of the Afropolitan, much maligned for its ‘elitism/class bias’, ‘a-politicalness’ and ‘commodification’ has become emblematic of the post-millennial ‘migrant novel’ by African writers. Responding to a debate on African literature in the post-global age, Pius Adesanmi argues that: What the post-global really did was to create the possibility of easy assumptions on the part of the twenty-first-century African writer and critic. Sudanese-Egyptian diasporic writer Leila Aboulela has become a prominent voice in African migrant writing. Most crucial to Lyrics Alley is the observation that specific critical trends such as the study of the cosmopolitan/Afropolitan migrant novel often lead to the obfuscation of other, more incongruous forms of mobility and belonging.
