Writing Postcolonial Power In Contemporary Chadian Novel

Résumé

Based on the postcolonial and socio-critical approach, this study deciphers the political, economic and social powers as they are managed in Chadian post-colonial society. It is concerned to demonstrate the stalemate of postcolony in all the above-mentioned aspects and singularly imputes this failure of progress to postcolonial leaders. What is the face of colonial power and to what does a mode of governance modelled on the dictatorial methods adopted by the former masters lead? Moreover, do not the new rulers in question give themselves to the dictatorship with joy and all the consequences that entails at the internal level of the country? This article shows how, feeling indebted to the metropolis, the source of their political power, the said officials squander the economic resources of their countries to grease the paws of the Westerners, in order to obtain from them favor and drag on to power.