The Quintessential Role of the Soil: A Postcolonial Reading of Shadrach Ambanasom’s Son of the Native Soil and Wilson Katiyo’s A Son of the Soil

This paper entitled, “The Importance of the Soil: A Postcolonial Reading Shadrach Ambanasom’s Son Native Soil and Wilson Katiyo’s demonstrates importance soil which raises conflicts as well generates wealth. The problem posed is that soil, an empowerment tool, stimulates agents desire socio-economic political control. Such slow development relegate weak in both national global affairs. bond contention evoked here powers are secured through oppressive means leave societies chaos stagnation. Some tenets postcolonial theory will be used a theoretical guide for analysis this paper. Findings reveal has ability to stimulate prosperity poverty reinforce binaries. concludes that, expansion agricultural sector fundamental meet needs fast growing population. If improvement neglected, risk increased resulting high mortality rate caused by war famine.