Nigerian literature has recurrently portrayed perennial forms of scatology, leadership ineptitude, military coups, and disillusionment. These problems marring our progress remain extant in Nigeria and most African countries, as represented in contemporary Nigerian and African literature. As the narrator in Wale Okediran’s Tenants of the House describes it, “nothing had changed” (71). This encapsulates the problem the African continent faces with its political class —a form of internal hegemony that one can refer to as “internal colonialism.” This internal hegemony is based on the privileges that the political class enjoys to the detriment of the masses. A close examination of this relationship can lead to a comparison of the Àbίkú/ọgbanje phenomenon or motif deployed by writers like J. P. Clark-Bekederemo, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, Debo Kotun, among others.