Abstract:
The current research study focuses on the interpretation of Afterlives as a narrative displaying colonial discourse of Germany against native/indigenous Africans. The novel is a postcolonial narrative which embodies the colonial atrocities based on colonial discourse and decolonization of Tanzania, East Africa. It displays the themes of genocide, oppression, barbarism and war by colonial masters like British Empire and more primarily German Empire. However, the researchers in this study have analyzed the novel from the perspective of colonial discourse considering the native Africans as ‘others’ by German masters. It addresses the research question how German colonial masters develop the pretext of superiority over native Africans in Afterlives. For reaching comprehensive conclusions of the research study, the researchers have utilized the theory of Orientalism by Edward W. Said. From the theory, the component of ‘other’ is more focused as a theoretical framework. The researchers have used Textual Analysis Method of research as a data analysis method. The data are textual generated from the selected novel with the thematic and theoretical criteria. The analysis reveals that the novel is a narration considering natives as barbaric, brutal, strange, inferior and uncivilized as argued by Said. This colonial discourse justifies the invasion of Germany as they fantasized themselves superior to native Africans in political and social spheres of life.