Editorial

Abstract

This special issue of Drumspeak brings together five papers that shed novel theoretical and interpretive insights on Amma Darko’s novel Beyond the Horizon. Written in the fin de siècle of the long twentieth century, Beyond the Horizon is a sobering meditation on the migration of Africans to the West. It is an important text in the subgenre of African literature that focuses on migration, dislocation, prostitution, and the crisis of expectations that confront African migrants in the West. The novel is, therefore, central to what Iheka and Taylor (2018, p. 18) call “the migration turn in African cultural productions.” Since its publication, Beyond the Horizon has generated a
significant corpus of literature that attests to the
amplitude of Darko’s craft and vision.