Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements / Opening: In Search of the Afropolitan / 1. Afropolitanism: A Contested Field and its Trajectories / The Authors in Conversation with Simon Gikandi / 2. The Vexed Question of Mobility / 3. Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Unhinging of Home and Belonging / 4. 'Africans of the World' and the Politics of (Re-)Connection / The Authors in Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen / The Authors in Conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava / 5. Sharing and Caring: Storytelling and Afropolitan Communities / 6. A Complex Weave: 'Race, ' Gender, and Afropolitan Love / 7. Less-Fortunate Afropolitans, 'Lapsed Africans, ' and Class Conundrums / A Statement by Taiye Selasi / Endnotes: Afropolitan Narratives, Tropes, and Styles / References / Index

Description:
A dissemination of the figure of the 'Afropolitan' from a critical literary angle. It attempts to explore a field of study which lacks a comprehensive literary approach to ways of being Afropolitan in the 21st century.