Quest for freedom in post-african writings

The present paper depicts the role of leaders in searching the freedom in Post-African writings. The task of rejecting a false consciousness is central to the reconstituting of a people's perception of themselves. Once the existing ‘reality’ is accepted as something that has been historically and ideologically conditioned, then a're-presentation ’of that necessitates a reshaping of the meaning of people's historical experience. Many writers through their works and characters tried to present the society of that particular time when African is struggling for freedom. It was under this oppositional image of the primitive African as against the civilised European that imperial economic opportunism was given to moral sanction. For the imperial civilisation mission to succeed, native society had to be constructed as one not just lacking in values such that the African was obligated to be converted into the new kind of life. For the imperial civilization mission to succeed, native society had to be constructed as one not just lacking in values such that the African was obligated to be converted into the new kind of life. The ‘real living history’ that emerges from the people themselves in the form of legends, stories, myths, and songs. The history books sent to Karega by the lower compel him to the question the ‘true’ representative of the African experience.