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Colonisation in Wole Soyinka's Drama: A Postcolonial Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Adesanya M. Alabi  and
Behbood Mohammadzadeh
Adesanya M. Alabi
Affiliation:
ELT Department, Cyprus International University
Behbood Mohammadzadeh
Affiliation:
ELT Department, Cyprus International University
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Post-colonial literature is the product of nexus between the culture of colonialism and the exigent practice of indigenous values.

Postcolonial 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 colonised (Prasad, 2003:7). Ali A. Mazrui highlighted seven conflicts that have been the main pressing matters among post-colonial writers: clash between the past and the present of Africa, between tradition and modernity, between individuality and community, between indigenous and foreign, between development and self-reliance, between socialism and capitalism, and between Africanity and humanity (Mazrui et al, 2014

Post-colonial literature, therefore, tries to explore the challenges and results of decolonisation of a nation particularly those nations that have been given political and cultural independence and were formerly colonised.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 134: Papers from SCOLMA Conference 2018: Things come together? Literary archives from, in and for Africa, University of Birmingham, 10 September, 2018 , 2018 , pp. 47 - 57
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 2018

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