Watching the Detectives

Muff Andersson

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Crime and Detective Fiction Studies Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Literature: history, themes, analysis

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Do popular authors of African detective fiction use their sleuths to clean up what they perceive to be post-colonial crimes? And is it possible for readers of whodunnits to make any sort of serious assessment of the socio-economic conditions of a country through following the trail of these ‘ethical eyes’? This article investigates Dan Fulani's Special Agent Pius Shale 005, Unity Dow's Amantle Bokaa, Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe and Deon Meyer's Zatopek van Heerden.

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1998The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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