The research project deals with African travel writing about Africa, for the period 1870-1950, by the authors who relate with African identity in some way or the other. My study focuses on the ambivalent identities of the writers constructed by the layers of their connection with Africa/central Africa and the places of/from their emigration/ immigration. For this study, seven authors from different social, political, and cultural backgrounds have been selected with dispersion by a colonial power as a common thread linking them to each other.