Politics of Nigeria

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    Nigeria is a federal republic of 36 states western African country located on the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean. The country boarders Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the East. Nigeria has become Africa’s largest economy due to the abundance oil since the 1970s resulting a $1.089 trillion GDP in 2016. Apart from Oil Nigeria’s natural resources also include natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, and arable land. Although being rich in desired…

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    The Disney film “Pocahontas” tells the story of when English settlers first came to the “New World”. It portrays how the English tried to claim the land for their own. These English settlers pillaged the Natives’ villages, despite how peaceful the innocent Native Americans proved to be. In the movie, John Smith, one of the many English settlers, falls in love with the Indian Chief’s daughter, Pocahontas and she, him. When the vast number of Englishmen begin destroying the Indians’ homes and…

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    Block and Short Quotes Ashley Ethington 8/29/17 “The Danger of a Single Story”, a speech written and spoken by a novelist by the name of Chimamanda Adiche, addresses stereotypes and first-hand experiences with them. Adiche starts off by narrating about how she, a young, Nigerian girl, learned early on about the dangers of stereotyping. Adiche (2009) states, “To insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me.” (paragraph…

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    discusses Nigeria’s modern day troubles faced due to its British colonial roots. Kwarteng (2012) writes that like its name, Nigeria was entirely artificially constructed. In early 1892 Flora Shaw, “The Times” colonial editor did extensive traveling in Parts of Africa. During her time in what was formerly known as the Royal Niger Company Territories she coined the name “Nigeria” to refer to the British protectorate along the Niger River (Kwarteng, 2012). Around the same time, Lord Salsbury, the…

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    Stories have been a part of human culture since before time. Storytellers generation after generation create a picture in our heads as they tell their stories. As any story is told, there can always be a second point of view. Looking at something from another standpoint can help explain the story or situation, and it fill gaps in the facts. In the past, a similar case has can be found in Africa during the mid-1900’s. Authors Sembene Ousmane and Chinua Achebe both documented the revolution in…

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    Candice gray 4 April 2016 The exploration of hybrid cultures within textiles I will be exploring hybrid cultures within fashion and textiles, by looking at traditional African textiles though their techniques, patterns and colours, of their fabrics and further exploring how fashion and textile designers contemporarise these traditional textiles in to modern and exciting textile pieces. Traditionally, textiles from Africa have originated for thousands of years, and were used used to show…

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    Okonkwo Influence

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    In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there is a man named Okonkwo lives in a Nigerian village called Umuofia. Okonkwo is highly respected in the village and has a place in the village as an Egwugwu . He is very successful and has multiple wives and children. Although he is a well rounded man he still is influenced by everything in his life. He is both influenced by the internal and external conflicts he faces in his complete life and is mostly impacted externally by his friends and…

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    What does it really mean to be a ‘man’. To show how ‘manly’ you are. In the novel, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe had written a story that is basically told in its title. From a village called Umuofia, Okonkwo’s life begins to fall apart due to various actions he has committed to soon be exiled from his village. During his exile missionaries have come into Umuofia and converted people into Christianity. Okonkwo’s madness lead him to kill a messenger of the missionaries and shorty after Okonkwo…

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    Things Fall Apart

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    In the novel Things Fall Apart we’re presented with the character of Unoka, who lived in a lower Nigerian tribe that is part of a nine-section connected village, Iguedo. Unoka can be described as a free spirit someone who lived their life listening to the wind and being one with nature a trait that to many seemed weak. Unoka was a man who could not stand the sight of blood making him an awful warrior, a very much respected role in his community. He was inconsistent borrowing and losing money,…

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    Okonkwo's Downfall

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    In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, there are many tragic events that led up to the death of the main character, Okonkwo. Okonkwo, who finds himself unable to adapt to the changes taking place in society, is a personal tragedy. From this, we can learn that his death was indeed in vain. His refusal to change, which contrasted with the society’s willingness to change, can be a key example that close mindedness has it's negative outcomes with very little to few positive outcomes. In many ways…

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