"UM CURANDEIRO PÓS-COLONIAL"

Having as its theme neocolonialism and its outcomes, the article has as its main objective analyze the following proposition made by auto-exiled Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, in his most recent novel Wizard of the Crow: neocolonial Sub-Saharan Africa needs to conduct a self-analysis. In order to do so, the article discusses the concept of neocolonialism, the turbulent events that led to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s exile, as well as, the main features of Wizard of the Crow. The ideas of Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Stuart Hall, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on how the neocolonial context affects colonized populations, especially those of Sub-Saharan Africa, were articulated as the theoretical assumptions of the article. With a view to illustrate the points at issue, the article broaches the disease known in the novel as white-ache and how it affects one of its main characters, Titus Tajirika. One of the results of the investigation carried out throughout the article is to make explicit how the analysis of Tajirika’s disease, treatment and cure bring to light Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s proposition and literary project.