Opening: in search of the Afropolitan -- Afropolitanism: a contested field and its trajectories: the authors in conversation with Simon Gikandi -- The vexed question of mobility -- Here, there, and elsewhere: the unhinging of home and belonging -- "Africans of the world" and the politics of (re-)connection: the authors in conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen -- The authors in conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava -- Sharing and caring: storytelling and Afropolitan communities -- A complex weave: "race," gender, and Afropolitan love -- Less-fortunate Afropolitans, "lapsed Africans," and class conundrums, a statement by Taiye Selasi -- Endnotes: Afropolitan narratives, tropes, and styles. |