Dictatorship And Satire In Ngugi’s Wizard Of The Crow

Résumé: Abstract This research examines the portrayal of dictatorship and its corrupt elites in postcolonial Africa. It studies Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novel Wizard of the Crow and examines its use of satire as a literary technique. Ngugi uses satire to reveal the barbarism of African tyrants and their regimes, who have defined the postcolonial period in Africa. The goal of this dissertation is to answer two primary questions: How dictatorship and the ruler are represented in the story? And how does Ngugi used satire to portray the authoritarian regimes in Africa? The study findings reveal that Wizard of the Crow examines the legacy of colonialism via the dual lenses of fantasy and satire, not just as it is perpetuated by a native dictatorship, but also as it is engrained in a purportedly decolonized civilization. The paper concludes that Wizard of the Crow has been one of the most satirical African postcolonial novels. Other literary techniques employed in this work, such as the narrative approach, grotesque, and suspense, all contribute to its uniqueness and help express the message clearly

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