Young African Migrants in the Quest of Eldorado: critiquing Amos Tutuola’s ’’My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’’

Young African Migrants in the Quest of Eldorado: critiquing Amos Tutuola’s ’’My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’’

The present literary and qualitative paper is a critical reading of Amos Tutuola’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts done under the persistent African migrations overseas owing to the socio-politico-economic situations of African countries. On the basis of psychoanalytical perspective, this paper attempts to criticize the motives of African migrations that cause the depopulation and brain drain of young Africans. The text collects different approaches to the problem of African migrations and the quest of Eldorado. However, it is revealed that poverty, violence, and underdevelopment drive African migrants to the utopia world. Therefore, African governments ought to find ways of halting clandestine migrations and helping young Africans stay home for the development of the continent. To be closer to Amos Tutuola’s hero, I wonder why young Africans still dreaming to leave their countries where flow milk and honey for an imaginative land, the Eldorado, wandering from western towns to towns. As a solution, this paper suggests a change of mentality and the fight to economic independence. Hence, Tutuola’s hero found ways to come out of the “Bush of Ghosts”.