ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with an aspect of political leadership. Good political leadership is often praised in African literature. Africa's modern history takes into cognizance the politics of colonialism, nationalist movements, independence, and post-independence. Political leadership represents the power structure that African literary artists have always held and continue to hold accountable for the plight of the people and the state of the nation. African experience of politics, leadership, and power has for the most part been disconnected from what they were used to in traditional times. Many writers, especially the poets, use images to describe the bad political leaders in such a way as to be vague to avoid defamation of their leaders and yet so graphic are the images that the leaders can be identified. African writers are engaged in the politics of their respective countries and the continent.
