Numéro de la revue: 31
Auteurs: Maoui Hocine
Department of English- Badji Mokhtar University -Annaba
Abstract
We contend that while Ayi Kwei Armah and Ngugi wa Thiong’o differ significantly from each other in terms of political conviction, they have both attempted to recapture a local national culture based on a constructed pre-colonial past, expressing an ever-increasing disillusionment with current political realities in their countries. We maintain that both writers have diagnosed the ills of Africa and have prescribed the self-same cure. The eurocentrism of Africa’s westernized elite is the colonial illness par excellence. The cure is the re-Africanization and the rediscovery and expression of African values as an indispensable part of the decolonization process. They suggest a reformed educational system and a revision of the teaching of humanities that centres on Africa in its form and content.
