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    L’image de L’afrique post-independante dans les soleils des independances D’ahmadou Kourouma, le cercle des tropiques d’alioum fantoure et le Jeune homme de sable de Williams Sassine
    (KNUST, 2018-08) Annan-Edufful, Daniel
    The controversy in connection with the success or failure of the independence of African countries, together with the responsibility as far as failure is concerned, has been at the heart of the image of post-independence Africa based on three novels: Ahmadou Kourouma’s Les soleils des indépendances, Fantouré Alioum’s Le cercle des tropiques, as well as Williams Sassine’s Le jeune homme de sable. We began the analysis with the hypothesis of failure, with national governments as the key culprits. Our key finding? – A plethora of circumstances pointing to dictatorship on the part of national governments! Our concern for impartiality urged us to search for two major phenomena: Ups and downs (emotional) in the lives of the masses. What did we discover? - Very shiny white teeth of creeping dogs! And the roots of the shiny teeth? Refuge into tradition, notably through altruism and religious fervor, sums it all up. Again, the fragile colonial heritage, though quite depreciated, remains, beefed up with at least a high theoretical sense of governmental concern for national security, unity and harmony though to enable the various regimes operate in such a way as to perpetuate themselves in power through their dictatorial one-party system. This governmental over-zealousness for national security and its dictatorship standing in contradiction, together with several other factors in a tussle regarding who or what lies underneath failure, urged us on to investigate the reality or otherwise of the situation. And the result? - A multiplicity of sources of failure apparently vying with national governments as to who is more responsible in relation to National failure. The outcome of this appraisal explains most of what we have unveiled in this work.