COLD WAR SPONSORSHIPS

What is it about?

This paper argues that Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People can be read as a satire of the cultural Cold War in African countries. In reading the contradictory pattern of shifting alliances, the author suggests Achebe satirizes African adoption of Cold War ideologies as opportunistic measures.

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Why is it important?

It places Achebe's novel in the context of mid-century literary cultures.