Lagos

The Right Mistake “… You want kill yourself abi? You be young, strong gentleman with enough energy to work. Why you for make the same mistake wey I want make?” Baba Adewole, the sixty-two-year-old millionaire, tries to convince Abeka not to commit suicide whilst justifying why he should be the one to throw himself down the newly constructed 87 metres high bridge, Third Mainland Bridge. Abeka had graduated from University of Ghana, Legon, with a first class honour in Business Administration.…

Tragic heroes in accordance to Aristotle are hero’s whom cause their own tragic devastation by making a fatal error which they could’ve avoided. By the way of Aristotle’s tragic hero, the plays “Othello” by William Shakespeare and “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles, both main characters are unfortunate tragic heroes. Through these plays we also learn that fate and a person’s will, play big fragments in our daily lives. The impact that fate causes on tragic heroes is destructive because it is beyond…

very quintessence of his nature is his effortless reversing in the order of good and evil in an effort to make the good appear the evil and vice versa. Another factor to be remembered is, that the poet has no longer made lago a historical man, hardened through disappointments , lago tells us himself that he is simplest twenty-seven, a younger man and, therefore, his innate, instinctive vileness appears extra horrible. We can forgive a person hardened and converted by fate, however,…

Throughout the tragic play of Othello, we see many elements portrayed. One of these elements is that some of the characters is that people do not seem to be what they appear to be. The biggest one who shows this element is Iago. In the play, he acts as if he is friends with everyone in the play. However this is not the case and he is a snake in the grass when it comes down to the end. He helps the downfall of all the characters in the play. Although he seems to be a friend to all of the people…

protested in two hundred cities, calling for him to release his tax returns and sell his businesses. On Capitol Hill, protesters chanted “Impeach Forty-five!” In West Palm Beach, a motorcade ferrying him from the Trump International Golf Club to Mar-a-Lago had to take a circuitous route to avoid demonstrators.…

in Paris. In the story, Achebe wrote about the beliefs of traditional African people regarding marriage. Achebe was able to define and to describe the differences of the way of living of people from Lagos (the previous capital of Nigeria) and the different ethnic tribes that compose the state. Lagos is known for having different warring tribes in the vicinity, and although the short story did not focus on the actual violent wars happening among the tribes, Achebe showed the wars happening…

her life. How Nnu ego grew up as her father Agbadi’s favorite daughter, she has a first marriage, but the marriage is unsuccessful because she fails to bear children for her husband. Her second marriage is to Nnaife, a man working as a cleaner in Lagos, he works for some white people named The Meers. She becomes pregnant for him, but unfortunately has a miscarriage; this propels her to the near suicide we witness at the start of the story. She goes back home after being convinced not to commit…

want to see their grandfather. This is a metaphor of the new culture accepting that the past traditions of the local tribes also have to be a part of the future generations, who are searching for an own national identity. She even promises to stay in Lagos, which symbolizes the change accepting that the people of a country must remember and honor the traditions of the past without the intervention of the foreign…

‘Incidents at the Shrine’ is a book by Ben Okri, consisting eight short stories, which are unconnected to each other. It was Ben’s first collection of published stories, which was published in 1986. Upon its reception it became clear that Okri was developing a distinctive and a more thoughtful sense of African reality at a formal level. These stories are firmly entrenched in the present, and unlike “Tim Winton” whose middle-aged, mediocre male protagonists spend a lot of time reflecting on past…

one cultural identity. According to Onishi, “Chinese identity has transcended from a long cultural and linguistic tradition that has been passed on to fourth-generation Chinese-American students, or the children of Chinese operating a restaurant in Lagos, Nigeria. Overseas Chinese are able to maintain their Chinese identity and are considered an insider, upon returning to China. On the other hand, the Japanese, being uneasy about foreigners, consider third-generation Japanese overseas to be…