This paper intends to demonstrate the way movements across national borders within Africa foster the development of the continent. It explores NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel We Need New Names and brings out how the author has imagined such development capacity in the construction of the narrative. The novel, mainly, tells about Africans’ immigration towards western worlds, such as the United States of America and Britain. However, in the process of telling the events, the narrator subtly gives indications pertaining to African intracontinental migration. In this regard, this paper considers characters’ cross-border movements within Africa and uses them as a means of development. This analysis will be achieved based on the theory of narratology. Actually, it lays emphasis on characters, spaces and events to relate migration and continental development.