Slavery and colonisation have entailed horrible consequences for Africans. Thus, some of them were forced to leave their homelands to Europe and America. The sequel to this separation from their homes is the loss of their former identity; due to a difficult adoption of the new culture once in the host countries. Unable to adapt to a culture which most the time they do not understand, some of them do not hesitate to search for their original African identity. Emecheta’s fiction, The New Tribe deals with a Nigerian young boy’s quest for this African identity in a white community where he seems to be lost because of his skin colour. Using the postcolonial criticism as a theoretical tool for the research, we will examine the concepts of deracination, hybridity, racism to head for the concept of afropolitanism as it is perceived in Emechet’s novel.