Towards a fresh perceptive in understanding African migration to the United States diaspora / Emmanuel Yewah & 'Dimeji Togunde -- Media representation of America and youth migration intentions / 'Dimeji Togunde, Ayobami Ojebode & Amanda Vocke -- Imagined America in African texts and the desire to migrate / Emmanuel Yewah -- The recent African immigrant (RAI) as the radical other / Emmanuel Babatunde -- Reproducing African communities in the United States : settlement patterns and social organizations / Bridget Teboh -- African emigres in the USA : negotiating ethnic identities, majority-minority statuses, and negative media co-representation / Anthony Olorunnisola -- African migration and the socio-cultural value of remittances / Ayokunle O. Omobowale, Mofeyisara O. Omobowale and Olawale Ajani -- Religious institutions : mode of adaptation for African immigrants in the United States / Emmanuel Twesigye -- The African diaspora's impact on the construction and reconstruction of homeland political identity / Okechukwu Iheduru