complex, on-going negotiation that seeks to authorize cultural hybridities that emerge in moments of historical transformation” (Bhabha: 3, 2). In performance, Bhabha claims, new kinds of hybrid identifies are strategically claimed and exerted. Such hybridity emerges from the syncretic nature of postcolonial societies, cultures, and discourses. Resisting a movement toward nativism, a futile, romantic attempt to return to a pristine, pre-colonial culture, writers such as Nigerian Nobel Prize winner