Garuba, Harry, 33

Gathering Seaweed, 244, 246

gender, 39, 54, 56, 61–62, 119, 138–139, 209–211

Gibbs, James, 230–231

Gillard, Garry, 79

Glissant, Edouard, 103, 106, 112–116, 125, 127, 131, 134, 140

global capitalism, 106, 108, 129, 171

globalization, 3, 5–7, 17, 54, 56, 75–87, 104–112, 116–117, 121, 125, 127, 129, 135, 140, 142, 151, 163, 174

God's Stepchildren, 202

Goethe, 221

Goodwin, K. L., 252

Gordimer, Nadine, 188–190

Gordon, Avery, 16, 31, 43–44

Graceland, 4, 6, 75–97

Gramsci, Antonio, 202–203

Greenblatt, Stephen, 225–226

Griqua, 200–203

Griswold, Wendy, 157, 160, 274–275, 280

Habila, Helon, 6, 147–174, 275, 277–278

Half of a Yellow Sun, 8, 149, 271, 275–280, 285–288, 295

Hani, Chris, 249–251

Harvey, David, 152–153

Hobbes, Thomas, 219, 233

Honwana, Alcinda, 18, 28

Hron, Madelaine, 5

Huggan, Graham, 15

human trafficking, 84, 92–94 See also slave trade

Hurston, Zora Neale, 269, 279, 281–282

Icarus Girl, 8, 271, 288–297, 308

Idea of Africa, 108

Ifowodo, Ogaga, 8, 241–263

Igbo, 22, 42–43, 57–58, 61, 65–68, 78, 149, 161, 271, 275–287

Imagined Communities, 110

immigration, 3, 57, 69, 105–130, 139, 141–142, 179–181 See also migrancy; migration

imperialism, 125, 174, 203, 231

indebtedness, 83–84, 93–97, 131–132, 160, 256, 263, 287

Innes, Lynne, 62

international humanitarian and human rights law (IHL), 15–16, 19, 21–23, 26–28

Invisible Children, 14

Iweala, Uzodinma, 5, 14–17, 22, 24–42

Jacobs, Jane, 184–185

Jameson, Fredric, 230

Jan-Mohamed, Abdul R., 226

“Jim Goes to Jo-burg,”, 178–180, 182, 186–189, 205

Johnson, Shaun, 183

Joys of Motherhood, 78

Jules-Rosette, Benetta, 110–112, 123, 136

Jung, Karl, 307

Kalakuta Republic, 77, 260–261

Kane, Cheikh Hamidou, 109, 246

Katrak, Ketu, 57

Kaufman, Zuade, 77

Kétala, 6, 135–136, 139, 141

Kourouma, Ahmadou, 110

Kozain, Rustum, 263