Immigration and social rebounds in the United States / Kenneth Usongo -- "I can't breathe" : the colonial and postcolonial crossroads in the writings of Ferdinand Oyono / Rolande D. Dathis. Reimagining Cameroon's history and politics in Mongo Beti's Cruel city / Kenneth Usongo -- Partners in ecological degradation and female resistance in Tanure Ojaide's The activist / Lami Adama and Juliana Daniels -- The "self" and despotism: objectification of the female body in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / Juliana Daniels and Lami Adama -- Navigating spaces: a postcolonial feminist reading of Buchi Emechetta's Kehinde and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus / Vivian Ntemgwa Nkongmenec -- Armah, women and the pan-African alternative to postcolonial African development: a relevant utopism / Juliana Daniels -- Women as agents of social transformation in northern Nigerian fiction: a postcolonial reading of Mohammed Umar's Amina / Aisha M. Umar -- Lost identity and the paradox of development (emergence) in post-independence Africa: a study of Shadrach Ambanasom's Son of the native soil and Protus Tah's The immortal seed / Jerry Ambanasom -- Living Black skin, wearing White masks: Frantz Fanon and Wole Soyinka on dependency and inadequacy in colonised African communities / Mingle Moore Jr. -- Immigration and social rebounds in the United States / Rolande D. Dathis.
Summary:
In the time since most African countries achieved independence from European colonial powers, it is unfortunate that these nations are still politically, economically, and culturally reordered by their former colonisers. This book argues that these nations often slavishly emulate Western values to the detriment of indigenous ones. It challenges the postcolony to ground itself in local experience and then nativise external values, which entails delicately sifting through both the domestic and foreign worlds to build a decent and humane society.
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