[2][3] Travelers is about a Nigerian graduate student living in the United States who relocates to Berlin with his wife Gina, who has won a prestigious arts fellowship.

In Berlin, he meets the community of African refugees and encounters with his identity and the privilege of being able to travel freely.

Due to racial problems, he divorces with his wife and decides to travel around Europe in order to meet with more African refugees.

[4][5] Emad Mirmotahari of World Literature Today wrote that the novel "refuses nostalgia for the cultural energies of African decolonization and the restorative promise of pan-Africanism".

[8] Edward Docx writing for The Guardian felt that it was "replete with literary references that twist and gleam through the narrative, adding light and riches and setting off unexpected resonances".