Human nature in Peggy Oppong’s the masquerader: A postmodernist reading

Abstract

The postcolonial African context reads through the corpus novel as a series
of complex socio-cultural challenges affecting the well-being of its people. This
study sets out to show how Peggy’s novel is a postmodernist fiction and how this
has helped the writer to debunk the grassroots factors of social malaise in
postcolonial African societies. Basing on postmodernism as the framework of the
analyses, this research work reveals that prejudices, capitalism and human
covetousness are the fundamental factors contributing to various social troubles.
Consequently, to foster peace and progress, the postcolonial Africa needs new
values systems that the protagonist embodies and displays in the novel.