Wagar and Motley “Archaic” Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somali Fiction

The advent of the modernist dream resulted in universalisation culture, which entails deliberate effort to abandon traditional ways life that foster difference and instead embracing national cultures bring different communities together. Colonialism Horn Africa, for instance, brought Cushitic under single political entities most them adopted Islam find a common ground. Other East Africa had convert Christianity universal cultural bridge. This has assumption African peoples are homogeneous given past traditions elevated have been eradicated by unifying factors such as modern states conventional religions Christianity. A critical reading some literary texts, however, demonstrates claims partly unfounded because there exist aspects pre-Islamic Somali religion along with fundamental beliefs Islam, bolster difference. article is postmodernist selected contemporary fiction investigate influence on culture. Using ideas Jacques Derrida Joseph Campbell, study impact myth ancient migration culture Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy Nuruddin Farah’s Secrets.