Product Description: Like many migrants, a large percentage of Africans who reside abroad cherish hopes of one day returning to their homeland, whether permanently or on a temporary basis. In the eyes of policy makers, such returnees are portrayed as “agents of development,” people who will bring back skills and economic capital that can be deployed in their native lands...read more

The idea of African Otherness has occupied a central role in discourses on cultural production in Africa, whether film, literature, music or the arts. (view table of contents)