Post-indiginist realism in modern African drama

Abstract

This paper highlights a literary style in which African dramatists compose in current diction and express themselves in a contemporary mode. The approach, identified in this essay as Post-indiginist Realism or Aesthetics, represents a departure from a celebrated method in which African dramatists privileged their culture or indigenous traditions in foreign language plays in the spirit of cultural nationalism. The main objective of this essay is to explain the Postindiginist concept, and thereafter examine some examples of the approach.