ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENT
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
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