Title:	Transnational Africa and Globalization
Authors:	Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Olufemi Vaughan
Keywords:	Africa Emigration and immigration
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This book grew out of many years of conversations between the coeditors, two Nigerian immigrant scholars, who stayed in the United States to pursue academic careers after their graduate studies in the United States and the United Kingdom. Incubated in the context of globalism, our dialogue crisscrossed layered spheres that intersect national and transnational spaces. These conversations always returrn to how we as African scholars—navigate our way around the culture of Western academia where we have earned our living in the past two decades. As first generation African scholars in Western universities, our ambivalence toward the U.S. academic world hardly can be surprising. What is noteworthy for discussion is how we navigated pathways that crisscrossed temporal national and transnational spaces. With the benefit of hindsight, we now see how our conversations have been interlocking discourses that revolved around the Western academe (especially where we work), conditions in African universities where we expect to work—and were expected to work, and everyday lived experiences that underscore the relations between homeland and Diaspora. Spanning two decades, these private conversations, in varying degrees, reflected the experience of many African immigrant scholars. They even complemented the professional priorities of a new generation of our American-Africanist colleagues, who, through their research and teaching, seamlessly traverse African transnational and Diasporic experiences as intellectual spaces.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/50960
ISBN:	978-1-137-01196-1
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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