The cultural utilities of myths and legends in Africa interplay with history to constitute the artefact for constructing imaginaries of cultural self-assertion and retrieval politicised to counter the pervasion of hegemonic texts which came with alienation and imposition. Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons and Ben Okri’s The Famished Road signify the interface of myth and history centralised in the memory of the African experience. By intertextualising the ancestral oral texts with the texts of emergent modernity, the two authors deepen insight into the realities of postcolonial Africa while drawing copiously on the body of myths and legends that inhere in the cultural past and situate them in the context of the chaotic nature of contemporary world order.
