Nigeria

In the play Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry the effects of colonialism is a theme that is irrevocably present throughout the plot. The play is set in a fictional country in Africa and it depicts in detail the results of European presence. Although the setting and characters were fictional the story line followed and contained various realistic situations and issues that existed and continues to exist in colonized countries. Some major issues that are presented in the play that transcends…

Chapter Two Ethnographic Fictional representation of tribe and gender in select fiction of Pratibha Ray Pratibha Ray’s The Primal Land is the story of Bonda tribals who struggled to survive through the development induced displacement of their indigenous ‘country’. She reconstructs the socio-cultural myths, beliefs and rituals of the past and also the present transformations in the socio-cultural setup in the Bonda lands. BondaRay’s narrative provides us the social, political, and economic…

The literary book “Things Fall Apart” is a well-written novel by Chinua Achebe about an ordinary Nigerian named Okonkwo and it explains how the impact of European colonization in his village significantly changed his life. Though this is the main idea, the novel also consists of many hidden messages which are shown through the interesting plot turns and literary devices. A theme that Achebe explores through the book is the role of men and women in the Igbo society and how certain customs are…

In Chinua Achebe’s postcolonial story of Things Fall Apart, Achebe portrays the main character, Okonkwo, as an angry man who is unable to show compassion which becomes his hamartia. This hamartia which impacts Okonkwo throughout the novel, eventually leads to Okonkwo’s own tragic demise. The death of Okonkwo was from his own fatal flaw, as a tragic hero. Not through the cultural displacement that may have affected the people around him. Aristotle describes a tragic hero as someone who: holds…

I ‘am originally from Cameroon located in the center part of Africa, in which French and English are the main language. I ‘am coming from a middle class family, and speaking French as a main language, and Bafia as a vernacular language. I ‘am a first born of twelve children and grew up surrounded by my parents and eleven siblings. I was a happy kid according to the fact that my parents were working very hard to meet our needs. Hence, I was respectful to other people, and obedient child to my…

Things Fall Apart, and The Poisonwood Bible contain plots where the characters leave their homes to create a new sense of home in future experiences. The Price family was forced to accept their new home based on their own decision to move to the Congo. Okonkwo created his home because of his shame for the past. These physical changes of home miss the deep points and allusions of the novels, only representing a small portion of the stories intent. Home is the central purpose in every action and…

In the book, “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, Culture and the role of customs is a huge factor affecting the story. As Wendell Pierce says, “Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It’s how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment… All of that is expressed in culture.” That quote does a fantastic job of explaining what culture means to the Igbo clan. It directly affected every single member of the culture every single day of their life. They had some practices…

expresses concern for the new boundaries been set through religion and civilization. One of the concerns is the violence associated with modernity. One of the interlocutors at the meeting to discuss the way forward with Mr. Wright’s highhandedness in their village summarizes colonial violence thus “Yes, we are talking about the white man’s road. But when the roof and walls of a house fall in, ceiling is not left standing. The white man, the new religion, the soldiers, the new road – they are all…

Essay Title: The modern and the traditional as depicted in So long a Letter. “So long a letter” as a piece of contemporary African women’s literature highlights the religious, social and other aspects of an African country passing into independence. When I understood the cultural and contextual background of “So long a letter”, I came across many aspects, but the theme of tradition and modernity fascinated me. Ramatoulaye, the protagonist is undergoing trauma following her husband Modou’s death…

Malawi was settled by early homo sapiens as early as 50,000 years ago, but the recorded history of the area doesn’t begin until 13th to 15th century with the arrival of the Bantu people. The Bantu who immigrated to the area made significant contributions with the creation of a centralized governmental system. In 1480, the Maravi Confederacy was created. During the next two centuries, this confederacy would spread its influence throughout many parts of southern and central Malawi and at one time…