ABSTRACT
This chapter compares the work of two expatriate Nigerians, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sefi Atta, to argue that the idea of Afropolitanism, as a consciousness of being part of the world, has a unique potential for advancing African feminism, because it enables a transcultural positionality that opens up a productive space of critical inquiry into African gender politics and makes it possible to imagine an alternative gender order. Their texts’ focus on the themes of nomadism, border-crossings, unhomeliness, and explorations of otherness is read in the wider context of postcolonial and post-communist women’s writing against patriarchal nationalism, colonialism, and totalitarianism.
