“…The main aim in these sorts of research had been to over-awe the world with the image of Africa as the heart of darkness. These approaches are forcefully recreated in the worked by critics like Patrick Chabal and Jean-Pascal (1999) for whom it is disorder that makes Africa work. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

“…While Chirikure challenges Eurocentric perceptions of Africa which by and large benefit the creators of the stultifying negative images of Africa by crippling Africans’ sense of belonging, such a literary position is obliterated by the stultifying negative images of Africa in some of his selected poems. …”
Get full text