International Journal of Culture and History ISSN 2332-5518 2016, Vol. 3, No. 2 61 Postcolonial Psychosis and Recovery Process in Osita Ezenwanebe’s Withered Thrust and Helon Habila’s Measuring Time Olusola Smith Adeyemi (Corresponding author) Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos Akoka, Nigeria E-mail: solaadeyemi5@gmail.com Adeyemi Kabir Bisiriyu Department of English, Houdegbe North American University Cotonou, Nigeria Abarowei Felicia Department of General Studies, Bayelsa State College of Arts and Sciences, Elebele, Bayelsa, Nigeria Received: July 25, 2016 Accepted: August 9, 2016 Published: December 23, 2016 doi:10.5296/ijch.v3i2.10499 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijch.v3i2.10499 Abstract A dialectical study of the histories of colonization according to scholars like Mohan (2012), Ashcroft (1989) and Bhoemer (1993) are the histories of the collisions between the natives and the European communities, and since colonization involves direct territorial appropriation of another geopolitical entity, combined with forthright exploitation, appropriated cultural power with political sagacity, colonized nations are bound to be subjected to the position of inferior. The outcome of this conflict leads to the emergence of postcolonial theory, whose multiple discourses and trajectories, significations and positional ties has made its conceptualization difficult. Nonetheless as a set of unstable formations, it claims as its special provenance the terrain that in an earlier day used to go by the term ‘Third