In contemporary times, the representation of migration across African borders in African writing has evolved into a compelling textual practice influenced by push factors (negative conditions in the home country) and pull factors (attractive conditions in the destination country). However, scholarship has rarely engaged this phenomenon with regard to how child mobility translates as a site of trauma and postcolonial childhood identity- formation. This study delves into personal recollections penned by erstwhile African child migrants in the West, examining how the intersections of migration and trauma have contributed to shape their identity-formation. The study, thus, explores how trauma and migration construct the postcolonial character of the African-child migrant in contemporary African literature. Along this line, this paper engages Wayetu Moore’s The Dragons, the Giant, the Women and Mohammed Abdulkareem Ali’s Angry Queer Somali Boy, focusing on how these creative life-narratives reflect the migrant child’s postcolonial trauma, particularly in relation to the Liberian Civil War and Somalia’s post- independence political strife. These creative memoirs also particularly dwell on how the migrant child’s personal story is interwoven with the reconstruction of the political and social pasts of both the home and host countries.