ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to tease out genealogical lineaments and connections if any between the colonial and the postcolonial narrativisations of forced displacements in a context where political actors have changed and especially where the principal victims of such displacements happen to be former white colonial masters. It examines the prospect that the newspapers under an African editorship were capable of returning ignorance about the adverse effects of government policy on white people. The chapter discusses the extent to which The Daily News lived up to its motto of telling it like it is in covering the Fast Track Land Reform Programme. A possible colonial nostalgia could also be read off the figures of the cartoon. The oppression of the dominated figure appears actually more acute after independence as the oppressed bear their burden bare-footed. The farm invasion story was rarely off the front page of The Daily News during the first month of its inception.
