As Kenyan scholar and novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o reminds us in his book Writing Against Neocolonialism, African writers who emerged after World War II experienced three defining eras: the age of anti-colonial struggle, the age of independence, and the age of neocolonialism. While political independence spread throughout Africa during the twentieth century, the cultural and linguistic legacy of colonialism remains deeply embedded in many African societies today, with one of th