Colonialism

and East. Initially it aimed at reviewing critically the conditions of colonialism and its aftermath. Postcolonial criticism analyses the relationship between coloniser and colonised, from the initial encounter of the…

In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Ibo culture clashes against Christian Missionaries in the middle of the story. Back during the 19th century, Christian Missionaries spread their culture through European Colonialism, which, even though brought modern technologies and ideas, it left native African cultures permanently damaged. This is portrayed with the views of an African native, Okonkwo, who was once famously known. After his seven-year exile, he came back to a changed Umuofia.…

New Imperialism Resulting from a rapid technical progress, a new attitude towards foreign policy began to dominate European governments. Political elites were increasingly influenced by the idea of Social Darwinism which justified the growing demand for more aggressive expansion and reinforcement of national status. “Survival of the fittest” encouraged states to engage in colonial rivalry since acquisition of territories outside Europe began to determine the potentiality for dominance in the…

Colonialism in The Native Problem In Robert Sheckley’s The Native Problem, Darko Suvin’s definition of cognition and estrangement can be used to explore contemporary ideologies about colonialism. Sheckley examines the effects of colonialism projected into a futuristic setting and aspects of colonialism are both changed and unchanged in different ways. In the story, colonialism is both successfully and unsuccessfully reimagined in ways that allow readers to reflect on contemporary ideas about…

will be discussing the difference between colonialism and Imperialism, I will also discuss as to how they affect the film industry. Colonialism is the establishment of a colony in one territory by a political power from another territory, and the subsequent maintaince, expansion and exploitation of that colony. Colonialism involves unequal relationships between the colonial power and the colony and often between the colonists and indigenous people. Colonialism in modern usage also tends to imply…

“So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.” This quote about Imperialism really brings out the brutality of the process of turning a country economically stronger. Imperialism was never idealistic because it would only promote slavery, racism and rivalries between European countries grow stronger. Slavery played a big part in imperialism. The reason for the mass amount of slaves being traded and killed was because of the thought that the imperialists were…

British colonialism was the cause of the Biafra war/ Nigerian civil war from 1967-1970. When the European countries colonised Africa they split it in different territories based on what they wanted and preferred. All they wanted was the country’s rich oil resources. They were not bothered by which tribes they mixed with, instead they drew up political entities and Nigeria happened to be one of them. The British planned Nigeria and they included areas that were controlled by a variety of…

This paper examines the effect of colonialism in Dangerembga’s Nervous Condition. It attempts to investigate the negative and positive effects of imperialism on Dangerebga’s fictional characters and by extension the Zimbabwean society, using the postcolonial critical approach. The work contends that Nervous Conditions is Dangerembga’s attempt to record history for society and not a gender centred work even as the present study distances from it. Introduction Dangerembga’s Nervous Conditions…

Africa’s Response Indigenous Religions There are many different thoughts and explanations about what an Indigenous religion is. It is said that in the past, scholars described indigenous religions as “primitive, depicting images of savergy, superstition, and very basic simplicity even thought these traditions involved extensive instruction and complex rituals.” (Oxtoby & Segal, pg. 29) Yet with today’s knowledge, these scholars now define indigenous religions as one that was “created by a…

Sub-Saharan African countries suffered from different kinds of problems: poor health care systems, corrupt governments, low life expectancies, and poverty (Stein, 2015). Lenin blamed colonialism for exploiting Africa and concluded that this exploitation caused Africans to live in a low economic status (Stein, 2015). The word “exploit” should be clearly defined here. Lenin defined this “exploitation” in Africa as “monopoly capitalists securing new political entities which ensured cheap raw…