Benjamin Maiangwa is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University and a 2021 Teaching Fellow at Durham University. He received the 2020 University of Manitoba Distinguished Dissertation Award. He is the author of The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding and One Boy! A Boarding School Memoir, and editor of The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race, and Belonging and Peace and Conflict in Core-Periphery Relations.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Boundaries Traversed: Home and the Gradations of Return. -Benjamin Maiangwa Part 1: Reflections of Home Chapter 2: On the Politics and Poetics of Home and Belonging: Unsettling Settlerhood in the Discourse of African Migration in Canada. -Paul Akpomuje Chapter 3: From Homeland to Homespace: The Birth of Multiple Identities and Liminal Belongingness. -Anselmo Vilanculo Chapter 4: African at Home, Black Abroad. -Benjamin Maiangwa Part 2: Diasporic Longings Chapter 5: 'Saman Twentwen': Renegotiating Home, Identity or Losing Both? -Muhammad Dan Suleiman Chapter 6: Umuntu Ongela Ndawo: Complexities of Belonging among Njivas of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. -Simon Bvurire and Nettie Nobukosi Ndou-Chikwena Chapter 7: Belonging Beyond Borders: Support Networks and Integration for African Immigrants in Japan. -Kithinji Kinyua and Rebecca Babirye Part 3: Gradations of Return Chapter 8: 'Anywhere I will die is home': Transnational Malawian (Machona) and the Home Quagmire. -Anusa Daimon Chapter 9: Out of Africa but always African: the complexity of home for African graduates in the diaspora. -Mahali, Alude., Mthombeni, Zama. and Ntshayintshayi, N. Chapter 10: Home is Only a Memory: African Migration, Black Diaspora, and Ambivalent Return/ing. -Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Chapter 11: Conclusion: Skintight shelters. -Christiane Ndedi Essombe