| dc.description.abstract | Postcolonial crisis, failures, confusion, absurdities and pain have
continued to provoke debate in Ugandan literature. Poets,
dramatists and novelists have all tried to reveal the effects of
colonialism on Africa and written about the selfishness, tyranny,
dictatorship and corruption of the post-independence leaders of
colonial powers. Moses Isegawa’s novel Abyssinian Chronicles
is one of those works of art that interweaves personal narratives
and issues of post- independence pain, failures and confusion in
postcolonial Uganda. The novel tells a story of the arbitrariness
of the life of characters due to the selfishness, incompetence,
inadequacies and hypocrisy of the first generation of leaders
after colonialism. In this paper, we argue that the failures of the
post-independence regimes had far reaching consequences on
the individuals, family and society at large. However, the
eventual triumph of the protagonist signifies the unwavering
African spirit that endures to the end. Qualitative research
approach. Textual analysis methodology was used to come up
with the findings. Post-colonial theory tenets were applied for a
better understanding of the primary text. | en_US |
