The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the desire to belong as quest motif on the characters in Gaston Paul Effa’s narrative and to explore Effa’s position on issues of identity, hybridity, alienation and difference that informs the globalizing world. Here, I have discussed the characters’ response to cultural contact which either creates or destroys the character as he/she struggles between them. This essay foregrounds the contention that Gaston- Paul Effa in Nous, Enfants de la Tradition presents characters that are caught in the web of varying cultures. These characters, faced with a plurality of cultures and migrant experiences are struggling to grapple with their new environment. Furthermore, the migrant ends up in a state of cultural alienation or becomes a hybrid. The paper has as theoretical tool the blend of postmodernist and postcolonial theories. Both axiology deconstruct the dominate “self” and lends voices to the dominated, oppressed and repressed “other”.
