Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel

Robert Spencer is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature (2011) and the co-author of For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics, with David Alderson (2017), and co-author of Postcolonial Locations: New Directions in Postcolonial Studies, with Anastasia Valassopoulos (2020).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The unfinished project of decolonisation.-  Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and the ‘recolonization’ of Africa.- Chapter 3: Performance and power I: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow.- Chapter 4: Performance and power II: Ahmadou Kourouma’s Waiting for the Wild.- Chapter 5: Allegories of dictatorship in Nigerian fiction: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: The counter-counter revolution.