Chapter 1 Introduction: Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule in Africa

Chapter 2 Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Matigari as a Paradigm

Chapter 3 Decolonial Visions in Mid-Twentieth-Century African Rhetoric: Perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah’s Consciencism

Chapter 5 Migration and Exile: The Exotic Essence of Life in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather

Chapter 6 Ingrid de Kok’s “A Room Full of Questions” and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Chapter 7 Identity, the “Passing” Novel, and the Phenomenology of “Race”

Chapter 8 Precolonial Imaginaries and Colonial Legacies in Mobutu’s “Authentic” Zaïre

Chapter 9 World War II and West African Soldiers in Asia, 1943–1947

Chapter 10 A Colonizing Agricultural Company in Somalia: The Duke of Abruzzi’s Società Agricola Italo-Somala in the Italian Colonial Fascist System

Chapter 11 The Magical Hour of Midnight: The Annual Commemorations of Rhodesia’s and Transkei’s Independence Days

Chapter 12 Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience