Migrancy and Diaspora Identities in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah

One of the major challenges of postcolonial African literature has been its transnational shift in the age of globalization. Globalization with its attendant increase in migrations continues to witness an influx of human beings from diverse parts of the world into Europe and America. Predictably, the largest numbers are often from the less developed countries of the world. The outcome of these  movements has been transformations and integrations in different ways. It is on this premise that Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street and Chimamanda  Ngozi  Adichie's Americanah are two literary  texts to discussthe multifaceted and intertwined  combination of experiences that afflict and characterize transnational trajectory and the complex dynamics of diaspora existence. The paper argues that Africans are challenged by the instability arising from the quest for survival  in  the new world as a result  of imperialism. Hitherto, the Nigerian immigrants are depicted  as grappling  with difficulties and identity crisis. The paper concludes that Unigwe's and Adichie's  transnational engagement underscores the perception of the West as an El Dorado of sorts.