The state of African leadership -- The African writer, the African politician and African literature -- Universalism of tyranny: Soyinka's adapted plays -- The myth of the glorious past: tyrannical traditional leaders -- Language as a tool of control: authoritarian modern leaders -- Fraudsters and tricksters as religious leaders -- Redemptive death, communal-and self-reintegration.
Summary:
"This book, The Big Men of Africa, examines the antics of these leaders who, long after the curtain has come down on their often poorly scripted and performed political theatres, refuse to exit the stage. Often referred to as the Big Men of Africa-- for all of them are men-- these leaders represent and are symbolic of much that has gone wrong with the continent..."--page 169.
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