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This paper examines sexual objectification and abuse of African migrant women in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street and Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon. It explores the dehumanising impact of sexual commodification and the nuances of abuse rooted in societal stereotypes and patriarchal power structures—an intersection to which scholars have given inadequate attention. The paper employs a qualitative research approach, involving close reading and textual analysis. A postcolonial theoretical framework is used to interrogate how African migrant women in the selected novels are commodified as objects of male sexual pleasure and subjected to prostitution slavery and the sex trade for profit. The study reveals that the abuse and sexual objectification these women suffer at the hands of men stem from patriarchal and societal stereotypes and produce poor self-image and identity alteration.