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ABSTRACT
This essay analyzes the causes and effects of post-migration trauma in the lives of African migrants in diaspora using Chika Unigwe's Better Never Than Late and Helon Habila's Travellers. Having been pushed out, compulsorily or voluntarily, to search for greener pastures outside their homelands, African migrants are faced daily with trauma which often threaten their lives and identities in their new host countries The qualitative research method is used for analysis where in there are consultations from the primary texts, published articles and the web. Also, using the sociological approach to literature, this essay showcases how Unigwe and Habila use their novels to inform the readers that lack of equal rights, unavailability of white-collar jobs, discrimination and language barrier put these migrants in a constant state of trauma. This study reveals that migrants suffer multiple form of trauma; including physical violence, dehumanization, depression, loss of marriage, social isolation, loss of self-esteem and many others and analyze the causes and effects of this trauma.
