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
PAGES
Title Page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgements iv
Table of Content v
Abstract vi
CHAPTER ONE
General Introduction 1
Statement of research problem 3
Purpose of the study 4
Scope and limitation of the study 4
Justification 5
Methodology 6
Structure of thesis 8 
WORKS CITED 9
CHAPTER TWO
Literature Review
The origin of Diasporian literature 10
Definitions of related terms 13
Tracing the experience of African in the Diaspora using 17
African Diasporic writers
Sociological theory 23
Works cited 26
CHAPTER THREE
The African Writer and social dilemma; an example of Teju 29
Cole’s Everyday is for the Thief
CHAPTER FOUR
The African Writer and Diaspora experience; an example of 36
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing around your Neck
Work citied 43
CHAPTER FIVE
Conclusion 44 Bibliography 48