Ideological Perspectives in Armah and Kourouma's Historical Novels

Africa, the womb of the earth, land of heterogeneous cultures and multivalent sprawling ethnic identities, is begging for harmony and mutual co-existence and understanding among dissenting voices of historical accounts. This book chronicles the rift between Armah and Kourouma over retour aux sources, the indictment of Europe and its major ally, for Africa's misfortunes. The truth could emerge from the focal point of the polemical crossfire in the authors' historical novels and from the jumbles of intellectual rhetoric on the source of Africa's malaise in the twenty first century. Locked in frenetic gargantuan argumentation over the cause of misnomer, unity remains elusive, but the argument is finally won by the eclectic who espouse that in spite of any havoc wrecked by colonization, its contributions to Africa's modern civilization are inalienably consolatory.