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This two-day workshop examines multiple mobilities and diverse migratory patterns in African and Afro-Diasporic literature and media from a transcultural and transnational perspective. The main premise is that both literature and media unfold how Africans crisscross the globe, how some Africans have permanently embraced “mobile lives" (Elliott and Urry 2010) and how migration from Africa to other continents and back – whether voluntary or involuntary – shapes African cultures and communities at home and abroad in the age of rapid globalisation. By focusing on mobility and migration as the most pervasive phenomenon of our present times, the workshop seeks to highlight not only the connection between the two, but more importantly, how multiple mobilities define the migrant experience and vice versa, and how a critical investigation of these mobilities facilitates the process of comprehending the distinct experiences of migrants in our interconnected yet conflict-ridden world.

This two-day workshop examines multiple mobilities and diverse migratory patterns in African and Afro-Diasporic literature and media from a transcultural and transnational perspective. The main premise is that both literature and media unfold how Africans crisscross the globe, how some Africans have permanently embraced “mobile lives" (Elliott and Urry 2010) and how migration from Africa to other continents and back – whether voluntary or involuntary – shapes African cultures and communities at home and abroad in the age of rapid globalisation. By focusing on mobility and migration as the most pervasive phenomenon of our present times, the workshop seeks to highlight not only the connection between the two, but more importantly, how multiple mobilities define the migrant experience and vice versa, and how a critical investigation of these mobilities facilitates the process of comprehending the distinct experiences of migrants in our interconnected yet conflict-ridden world.