The Experience Of Africans In Diaspora Using Teju

African Diasporic writers have written on the experiences and social dilemma faced in their homeland and in the foreign land. It is thus against this background that this research work is based. Thus the major intention of this essay is to highlight the homeland issues and experiences of Diaspora and attendants vices that have been the major preoccupation of Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in their works. This work will not only highlight but also unfolds what Africans go through in the Diaspora and in their homeland. This research effort focuses attention on how African writers Teju Cole in his novel Everyday is for the thief (2007) And Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her novel The thing around your neck (2009) project this experiences and its effects on the African bringing out its social dilemma affecting the African societies. This research study adopted sociological criticism. We discussed these experiences through focusing on African writers in Diaspora in their fictional works.

Title Page

Certification

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Table of Content

Abstract

CHAPTER ONE

General Introduction

Statement of research problem

Purpose of the study

Scope and limitation of the study

Justification

Methodology

Structure of thesis

WORKS CITED

CHAPTER TWO

Literature Review

The origin of Diasporian literature

Definitions of related terms

Tracing the experience of African in the Diaspora using

African Diasporic writers

Sociological theory

Works cited

CHAPTER THREE

The African Writer and social dilemma; an example of Teju

Cole’s Everyday is for the Thief

CHAPTER FOUR

The African Writer and Diaspora experience; an example of

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing around your Neck

Work citied

CHAPTER FIVE

Conclusion

Bibliography