Transference and Re(De)Placement and the Edge Towards a Postcolonial Conundrum

Abstract

This chapter is a follow-up to the previous one. Here, my analyses of the postapartheid South African are done through lenses of extended colonialism. Here, we refer to continued tentacles of colonialism despite the end of juridical and administrative colonialism. The “postcolonial” is a condition that is still mired and connected to colonial machinations; it is presently caught up in the vortex of the regressions of excesses of colonial rule and its attendant matrix of power, reification, a persisting racism, and exploitative and extractive relations of oppression. Colonial Africa is much more like postcolonial Africa, and its dynamics have continued to shape the contemporary societies. It is only when this message has been digested that we can establish what the real peculiarities of postcolonial Africa are.