THE EXPERIENCE OF AFRICANS IN DIASPORA USING TEJU

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