Abstract:
This study is a postcolonial analysis of the film Hotel Rwanda(2004), through
K. Homi Bhabha’s theory of Postcolonialism. Using the three concepts of otherness,
mimicry and ambivalence and through an analysis of the power dynamics and
relationship in the film, this work investigate how the relationship between the
colonizer and the colonized unfolds in post colonial Africa. The study shows Paul
Rusesabagina as the embodiment of the mimic man, a western made figure living in
disillusionment, while his life is stuck between his job as a controled hotel manager
and a Rwanda citizen and a mimicry that he uses as a strategy of survival . The
research also highlights how the Hutu were marginalized by the Belgium, how the
Hutu dehumanized the Tutsi and how both ethnic groups are othered and
marginalized by the international community, which further more illustrates the
ambivalence interaction between the black and the white community. The conclusion
confirms that the Belgian colonial legacies still persists in a reformed African subject,
a marginalized African and a western community that refuses to act upon witnessing
such atrocities such as the Rwandan genocide of 1994
