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Leila Aboulela, who perceives herself as a 'silent writer' is a Scottish-based Sudanese-origin fictional writer, playwright, and essayist whose insightful narratives are themed on identity, migration, Muslim culture, and superposed East and the West. This study critically examines Leila Aboulela's strategic essentialism against the backdrop of colonial continuance and globalization. It further focuses on how Africa needs liberation from both guilt and gratitude through the characters who have migrated to England in Leila Aboulela's short stories Missing Out, The Ostrich, and Doctor on the Nile. Migrants in the West often encounter 'colonial subjugation' and at same time are culturally displaced from their own space. In this realm, Leila Aboulela's illustration of Khartoum can be studied in the light of Salman Rushdie's conceptualization of 'imaginary truth'. This research predominantly analyzes the perplexity of cultural praxis through Homi Bhabha's concepts of 'mimicry' and 'hybridity' in the context of Leila Aboulela's alterity in these selected works.