Globalization catalyses the proliferation of transnational literature across disciplines and the contemporary African and African-American novels are no exception. They develop Afropolitan topics in which emerge new kinds of migrating populations composed of people whose patterns of life encompass both their host and home societies. Their lives cut across national boundaries and bring several societies into a single social field. The article analyses two transnational novels: Beyond the Horizon (1991) written by the Ghanaian novelist Amma Darko, and Possessing the Secret of Joy (2009) written by the African-American novelist Alice Walker. It argues that the African migrant women in the elsewhere (African and African-American novels) overcome oppressions to become Afropolitans. Comparing the two novels through the lens of Afropolitan theory, the article finds out that from being multiple oppressed subjects, the African migrant women find homeliness in the host countries.