TY - JOUR
AU - Lamak, Kefas
AB - African Affairs, 123/493, 563–565 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adaf005 © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal African Society. All rights reserved. For commercial re-use, please contact reprints@oup.com for reprints and translation rights for reprints. All other permissions can be obtained through our RightsLink service via the Permissions link on the article page on our site–for further information please contact journals.permissions@oup.com. Advance Access Publication 20 February 2025 BOOK REVIEW Memories of Africa: Home and abroad in the United States, by Toyin Falola. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Xiii+241 pp. $30 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-4969-4348-7, available as an e-Book. In this book, Toyin Falola examines the theme of African diaspora in the USA with a larger emphasis on two sets of African diaspora groups: The first set are Africans who migrated from Africa in the recent modern period for several reasons ranging from a search for a greener pasture to insecu- rity, political turmoil, and economic hardships (pp. 20–21). Falola observes that a crub of Africans who recently migrated to the USA are continuously interested in what is happening in Africa and in their host countries. They relate and interfere with their home countries’ socio-political activities in different 
TI - Memories of Africa: Home and abroad in the United States. Toyin Falola
JF - African Affairs
DO - 10.1093/afraf/adaf005
DA - 2025-02-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/memories-of-africa-home-and-abroad-in-the-united-states-toyin-falola-ZXms2DkHTf
SP - 562
EP - 565
VL - 123
IS - 493
DP - DeepDyve
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