The Stranger within: Culture, Identity and the Diasporic Self
摘要
Migration is more than physical movement or relocation for the African migrant. It is also above moving for a better life elsewhere or protesting against poor occurrences in one’s origin. In the case of a few exiles, it may be far from being forced out or escaping from persecution by military regimes or authoritarian leaders. This is why this chapter will look at Migration for Africans as both epistemological and ontological (Ehrenfeld, 2024; Ribeiro, 2019). In the case of the epistemological implications, it involves exposure to advanced countries or what is regarded as the “civilized” (Huntington, 1993; Lewis, 1993) world, leading to new knowledge, understandings, and patterns, which are unlikely in developing African countries and, more likely, in the developed world of the global West. On ontology, it is because it involves the transformation of the individual, the reorientation of the “being” into a new “becoming” (Heidegger, 1962; Lind et al., 2024; Nietzsche, 1968; Ofuasia, 2024). This hopefully locates the nuanced, ideational experience of the African migrant from an interpretative perspective.