This paper explore the trope of migrancy in Ndongo’s latest novel Metro and evidence how the black subject negotiates his/her sense of difference in the face of a white European society. Paradoxically, although this issue of diasporic identity is central to the book’s thematic structure, only a quarter of the novel actually takes place in Spain; the remaining sections being dedicated to the protagonist’s life inside Africa. Our aim is to elucidate upon the motivations that drive Obama Ondo from his homeland and tie this in with the complexity of human relationships that Ndongo portrays in his novel. This analysis shall centre around desire, and how the denying of this outshadows the bigger post-independence themes such as the gross mismanagement of the country’s natural resources or the ruling bourgeoisie class’s nefarious mimicry of prevailing European mores. We shall see how this drama of intimacy thwarts the protagonist’s natural filiation with leadership and provokes in him a type of existential paralysis. This layered backdrop thus enhances Obama’s personal tragedy; victim of both the unscrupulous exploiters of cheap immigrant labour and of the catch 22 situation of the African illegal immigrant. In this light, we shall evidence how Metro examines the ambiguities of migrancy and questions the possibility of a hybrid identity