Dissenting Mind and the Call for Social Change: the African Hero in Mouloud Mammeri's

Abstract

This dissertation is a comparative study between two works, one by the Algerian writer Mouloud Mammeri and the other one by the Ghanaian Ayi Kwei Armah. It aims to show the way Le Sommeil du Juste and Fragments negotiate the issue of acculturation. The study adopts a Post Colonial approach; it is based on the concepts of mimicry, ambivalence and hybridity specifically, as developed by the Indian scholar Homi K. Bhabha. In their novels, the authors show the way African individuals use the colonizer’s culture to re-appropriate their own, perverted by the colonial encounter. The writers point out the immense opportunities young intellectuals have to offer their countries. The study attempts to examine the authors’ converging views around the healing possibilities a sound education can provide if used adequately