The Critical Imagination In African Literature

Abstract

Politics can be defined not only as that profession devoted to govern¬ing affairs or opinions about politics but also as the understanding of the prevailing social order that regulates or shapes the writer's world, and his conscious efforts to positively influence it. We define history in the traditional sense, as a record of events of the past, whether the records are written or oral, although we do not see it as something locked in the past. The interplay between politics and history is what determines social structures of every society, and what gives direction to its future...