Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel - Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism

This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. This book discusses four novels by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in order to reveal how their themes and forms dramatize this unfinished struggle between dictatorship and radical democracy.