Research indicates that a sizeable proportion of African immigrants living in the Diaspora find themselves in the throes of self-denial in their attempt to fit into the mainstream (Ngwa and Ngwa, 2006)—a phenomenon labeled the “diaspora dilemma” by Ozodi Thomas Osuji (2006). From the onse...
I have used the symbolism of a malignant body portrayed as an abscess as an appropriate description of the malaise in which most African immigrants live in the United States of America and Europe. In an attempt to drain off theirAfritude(quality of being African), bush-fallershave resorted t...