Navigating transnational realities

This article examines how Ndibe’s, 2014 Foreign Gods, Inc. critiques the commodification of African cultural artefacts and spirituality in the global marketplace while exploring the fractured identities of Nigerian immigrants. It moves beyond trauma-centred diaspora notions to highlight complex immigrant identities. Ike’s journey represents the struggles many immigrants face pursuing the ‘American Dream’. The discussions were undertaken within two broad themes. The study demonstrates that cultural commodification and cargo mentality reveal vestiges of colonialism that persist, creating fraught relationships between postmodernity and tradition. This study contributes to the ways Nigerian immigrant literature engages with issues of cultural preservation, spiritual identity, and the complexities of navigating between worlds in an increasingly globalised context. The study theorises commodification as a survival strategy in immigrant literature

Globalization · Human rights · Immigration · Irregular migration · Narrative · Refugee · African history and culture studies · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture

• The Social Life of Things

  Open Access•Arjun Appadurai•Social Life of Things•1986

  Incluir item

• Accounting for which violent past? transitional justice, epistemic violence, and colonial durabilities in Burundi

  Open Access•Astrid Jamar•Critical African Studies•2022

  Incluir item

• In search of a post-transatlantic slave trade dwelling and conviviality

  Rogers Asempasah, Samuel Ato Bentum•Critical African Studies•2023

  Incluir item

• Re-visioning Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments

  Open Access•Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu, Samuel Kwesi Nkansah•Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura•2024

  Incluir item

• DestroyedMichygen”

  John Masterson, John Masterson John Masterson•Research in African Literatures•2018

  Incluir item

• The African Diaspora

  Colin A Palmer, Colin Palmer•The Black Scholar•2000

  Incluir item

• Rethinking Diaspora (s)

  Khachig Tololyan•Diaspora A Journal of Transnational…•1996

  Incluir item

• Defining and Studying the Modern African Diaspora

  Colin A Palmer•The Journal of Negro History•2000

  Incluir item

• Unfinished Migrations

  Tiffany Ruby Patterson, R D G Kelley•African Studies Review•2000

  Incluir item