What is it about?
Using Wole Soyinka's Kongi's Harvest as the literary basis, the study investigates how Africans started colonising themselves even after the departure of the colonial rulers. The outcome shows that poor leadership, corruption, and colonial mentality carried into the postcolonial era are the main causes of the impoverished conditions of the postcolonial African countries. In light of this, it has been identified that even after colonisation in Africa came to an end, the colonisers left their surrogates, or indigenous colonisers, behind in order to carry on where they left off.Thus, evaluating Soyinka's Kongi's Harvest objectively highlights the problem of native colonialism in Africa. Africans themselves view this concept of misruling and misappropriation of governance as the colonialism of the decolonised African states. The conflict between the conventional norm and the contemporary order is reflected in Kongi's Harvest.
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Why is it important?
It is significant because it highlights the ways in which postcolonial literature examines the difficulties and outcomes of African countries' decolonisation, especially for those that have gained political and cultural independence after having previously been colonised by colonial powers. In order to investigate and critique the season of anomy in African society within a postcolonial framework, this study looks at Wole Soyinka's Kongi's Harvest.
Perspectives
Africans' incapacity to rule themselves—or maybe more accurately, their inability to govern themselves throughout the postcolonial era—is amply demonstrated by Soyinka in Kongi's Harvest. There is a need to reflect on the shoddy and tawdry condition of postcolonial Africa is nothing to be proud about. Thus,it does not matter if the people's lives are put at stake; in as much as the African rulers' moral turpitude and depravity are concealed and protected, they are okay with it. In their jury system, justice is not in what the judge should judge but in what they tell the judge to judge. This is reflected in the activities between Kongi and his reformed Aweri.
Asst. Prof./Dr. Adesanya M. Alabi
Cappadocia University, Urgup/Nevsheir
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This page is a summary of: A Postcolonial Reading of Wole Soyinka’s Kongi’s Harvest, Advances in Language and Literary Studies, August 2018, Australian International Academic Centre,
DOI: 10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.4p.43.
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