Abstract
Post-colonial literature is concerned with the matters of decolonization, cultural, economic and political freedom of the previously colonized nations. Post-colonial theory places more emphasis on the criticality of colonialism and its establishment resulting in neo-colonialism with the accentuation of the power of the west over the colonized (Prasad, 2003:7). Post-colonial literature attempts to explore the challenges and results of decolonization of a nation, particularly those nations who have been given political and cultural independence and were formerly colonized by colonial powers. This study attempts to examine Wole Soyinka’s Kongi’s Harvest to explore and criticize the season of anomy in African society in postcolonial context. The study explores how Africans began to colonize themselves even after the departure of the colonial rulers in Kongi’s Harvest. The result reveals that the reason for the impoverishment of the decolonized African nations is as a result of bad leadership quality, corruption and colonial mentality transmitted into the postcolonial era. For this reason, it is discovered that even after the end of colonization in Africa the colonizers left their surrogates (indigenous colonizers) behind to continue from where they stopped.
Highlights
Though looking at the factual existence of imperial and colonial domination, it has never made the people dominated well, rather it makes them learn resistance and animosity against the invaders
The result reveals that the reason for the impoverishment of the decolonized African nations is as a result of bad leadership quality, corruption and colonial mentality transmitted into the postcolonial era
In quest of deep knowledge about the sardonic cause of indigenous colonization by the African native leaders and the insidious consequences of this pernicious and primitive act of human-beast; this study greatly explored the criticality of African fate under the watchful eyes to the tyrants
Summary
Though looking at the factual existence of imperial and colonial domination, it has never made the people dominated well, rather it makes them learn resistance and animosity against the invaders. In this case, it became very glaring that Africans were incapable or they were made incapable of governing themselves after the exodus of the ‘masters’; they became repressive over themselves and their leaders eventually became dictators who usually applied a draconian measure in ruling their people. The issue of dictatorship cultures becomes a central focus among the African people who intertwine with cultural development. Bhabha in his The Location of Culture highlights that “the borderline work of culture demands an encounter with ‘newness’ that is not part of the continuum of past and present” (Bhabha, 1994: 17)
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