September 2016

A question of the body: Colonial legacies and postcolonial imaginaries of power in African literary texts

This study examines the representation of corporeal difference as one of the fundamental ideologies on which the power dynamics of colonial and postcolonial polities are based. The analyses in this study are anchored on postcolonial theory with regard to issues such as power, race, centre/margin and decolonisation while the various notions of corporeality discussed here are informed by the works of theorists like...

Author(s): Ndi Gilbert Shang

September 2016

Socio-political satire in Femi Osofisan’s Many Colours Make the Thunder-King

Oral literature is a vital tool that is sometimes deployed by African writers for criticizing the social and political situations in their countries with the aim of challenging and proffering solutions to unpleasant and oppressive practices by its leaders. Femi Osofisan’s Many Colours Make the Thunder-King exemplifies this situation. It is observed that oral literature is not usually considered as a possible means...

Author(s): Olushola Ayodeji Akanmode