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8 Cards in this Set
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"People with brown skins are next door to invisible" |
Homogenises and Subjugates |
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“How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?” |
Tone Changes/ Revelation of necessity of Individuality |
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“There is no question that the donkeys are damnably treated” |
Empathy suggests Euro-Centrism favours treatment of animals over Africans |
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“When the friends get to the burying…they dump the body,” |
Barbaric description suggests that these people lack Western mores and show disrespect to deceased. |
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“Thedarkness of the night,” |
Presagesthe coming of the colonisers who through references of pathetic fallacy/ foreshadowthe suffering, inequality and evil that they represent. |
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“InUmuofia's latest war, he was the first to bring home a human head,” |
Thethirst for blood is parallel in both Ibo and European culture |
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“WhereOkonkwo kept the wooden symbols of his personal god and of his ancestralspirits,” |
Chi = richness of culture, reliance on higher beings for lifeand the immensity in which beliefs are kept |
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“if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings,” proverbillustrates one of the Igbo highest values |
Stylised Proverb celebrates most important facet of Igbo culture, personal responsibility. If a man “washes his hands” or pays off all his debts and is able to stand on his own, he may mingle with the most respected elders. / elders are revered/about what you have done, not family, opposite of Euro |
