Articles · Vol. 41 No. 2 (2016): Africa Development

1 - Demystifying the Future in Africa’s (Un)vanishing Past: A Study of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Novels

  • Gbemisola Adeoti
    Gbemisola Adeoti
    Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. E-mail: remiade@oauife.edu.ng; ayinla80@yahoo.com
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Vol. 41 · 2016 No. 2 Africa Development AD

Abstract

This article attempts a critical analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s last two novels: Matigari and Wizard of the Crow. This is with a view to interrogating the novelist’s dissection of problems confronting post-independence African nations and how these nations can be re-invented. The analysis is done against the backdrop of growing challenges of neo-liberalism and Westernisation, otherwise known as globalisation.

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o Matigari and Wizard of the Crow post-independence African nations, neo-colonialism

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Author Biography

  • Gbemisola Adeoti

    Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. E-mail: remiade@oauife.edu.ng; ayinla80@yahoo.com

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