Complexities of contemporary africa : a postcolonial reading of sarah ladipo manyika's independence (2008)‎

الملخص EN

After being colonized for several decades, most African nations became politically independent in the 1960s and 1970s of the twentieth century.

therefore, the 1960s represented a great hope for the future of Africans.

as a result, African literature has achieved great recognition, and many African writers achieved worldwide success.

of these writers, the Anglo-Nigerian novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika has achieved international reputation by the debut of her first novel, independence (2008).

she was born to a Nigerian father and a British mother, and was raised up during post-colonial Nigeria.

the plot of the novel revolves around the mutual love between the Nigerian young man, Tayo, who meets Vanessa, the beautiful daughter of an ex-colonial officer during his scholarship at oxford university.

besides this cross-cultural love-story, independence is a story of the Africans in the diaspora.

this paper is based on the theoretical framework of the post-colonialism literary theory and the consequences on the lives of the colonized.

through this theory, the complexities of contemporary Africa, in particular Nigeria, are raised.

such complexities include interracial relationships, colonialism, post-independence Nigeria, and apartheid in south Africa.

queries which are subject to the discussion will mainly deal with true independence after the country wins postcolonial period and other queries related to the personalities of the colonizers and colonized within the colonized country and abroad on the territories of the colonizer (i.e.

Nigeria and England).