A sweeping polemic that assigns responsibility for Africa's exploitation to two parties at once: Western imperialism, and the African elites — from the era of the slave trade to the postcolonial present — who collaborated with it. Chinweizu demands cultural decolonization and an Africa-centered standard for judging African affairs. The book is a landmark of postcolonial African criticism and a founding text of the Afrocentric literary debates of the 1970s and 1980s.
Author: Chinweizu · Original publisher: NOK Publishers (Nigeria) / Random House (US), 1975. Full subtitle: *White Predators, Black Slavers, and the African Elite*
