Fadila AMEUR2020-12-102020-12-102020-06https://repository.univ-msila.dz/handle/123456789/22038In his works, V.S. Naipaul discusses the enduring debate of postcolonialism. He seeks to address questions of decolonization, Eurocentrism, and identity. Hence, the present study examines Naipaul‘s scepticism and cynicism about the newly independent African nations and their capability to forge an independent political and social identity. It endeavours to analyse V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River in the light of the postcolonial theory. The study employs Bhabha‘s postcolonial theories of Hybridity, Mimicry, Ambivalence and the concept of the Unhomely. The first chapter presents the socio-historical context and the theoretical framework. The second chapter examines the writer‘s scepticism and cynicism towards the newly independent African nation in the novel.Keywords: postcolonial Africa, scepticism, cynicism, Bhabha, A Bend in the RiverThesis