Abstract

Better known as a historian than novelist and playwright, the Nigerienne Andre Salifou, just like the Nigerian Chinua Achebe, the Ghanaian Ayi Kwei Armah and the Kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, used history to develop the various topics evoked in his novel entitled La valse des vautours (The Waltz of the Vultures). If the colonizer stressed the domination and systematic exploitation of various African resources and potentialities, the new leaders of independent Africa have excelled in illicit enrichment, preferential treatment and abuse of power. Through precursory stories, Andre Salifou has skillfully denounced the unhealthy practices of the new African political class after the independence. The new democratic wave having swept the African nations, the new African leaders have difficulties adapting themselves to it for the common interest of their compatriots and their nations. Key words: History, ill / good governance, democracy, Africa, politics.

Highlights

  • African leaders, under pressure from Europeans and Americans, are forced to democratize their regimes

  • Salifou protests against colonialism and imperialism which dominates black world, while laying stress on the jolty and catastrophic mismanagement of the "new riches persons", who I named the African political leaders, having replaced the white colonizer. This new African class does worse than the Western dominator- systematic plundering of national resources, corruption, embezzlement, nepotism, preferential treatment and social injustice

  • To deal with political themes, Andre Salifou walked his reader through history

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Summary

Labo Bouché Abdou

Better known as a historian than novelist and playwright, the Nigerienne André Salifou, just like the Nigerian Chinua Achebe, the Ghanaian Ayi Kwei Armah and the Kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, used history to develop the various topics evoked in his novel entitled La valse des vautours (The Waltz of the Vultures). If the colonizer stressed the domination and systematic exploitation of various African resources and potentialities, the new leaders of independent Africa have excelled in illicit enrichment, preferential treatment and abuse of power. André Salifou has skillfully denounced the unhealthy practices of the new African political class after the independence. The new democratic wave having swept the African nations, the new African leaders have difficulties adapting themselves to it for the common interest of their compatriots and their nations

INTRODUCTION
Use of historical context in novels
Bipolarisation of political life
One can notice that even the Ghanaian Ayi Kwei
President of the Presidium of the Nigérienne Sovereign
VAMPIRES OF THE COURT
This scatological description of Gaïka is specific to Andre
Conclusion
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