Is Africa’s political rebirth a mirage?

Reading most of contemporary Africa’s media and literature texts, one notices two basic thematic motif running across the entire corpus of this genre — the themes of pain and disillusionment. This development indicates that although independence sought to ultimately liberate Africans, nothing tangible has happened to resolve our crises. In a sense, contemporary African journalism and literature reflect social and political realities of the post-independence era in which political elite replaced the coloniser.

African journalism and literature were tools for celebrating the heroic grandeur in the past; later they were used in the anti-colonial struggle and presently they are being employed as veritable weapons for depicting the postcolonial disillusionment in African countries.