Politics of Nigeria

Culture is what keeps people in a certain areas connected and is used to make a sustainable society to live in. Although the main goal of a culture is to unite the people some fall sort and still have separation between the people. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, A Nigerian village named the Ibo village is described very well but Achebe does not shy away from showing the reader how the villages culture and traditions divide the people more than unite them. Some of the villages…

Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka criticises the racial attitudes of his society to ironically highlight the unjust treatment of black people. The poem features a telephone conversation between an African traveller looking for accommodation and a white landlady, whom, upon hearing that the traveller is black, refuses to lodge him a room. Soyinka constructs three key concepts which include the supposed superiority of the white population, the ignorance of white people and the format of a…

Racism is something that has been something occurring in the world for a very long time. The novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad represents the time period of imperialism; when Belgium colonized the Congo. Conrad depicts the racism that occured in the Congo of Africa because of the Europeans colonization. The main protagonist named Marlow, a European sailor, goes on an adventure with his crew through his perspective going up the Congo River with the goal of meeting an idealistic man, Kurtz.…

Chinua Achebe's “Things Fall Apart” is a historical fiction novel that is set in the early 1900’s. This novel is about the tragic downfall of the main character Okonkwo, a well respected leader within his clan in Umuofia, who is also a tragic hero because of several flaws. Okonkwo’s most noticeable flaw is that he fears weakness and failure. Okonkwo’s fatal flaw is his fear of weakness and failure. This fear was the result of the weakness and failure of his father, Unoka. He saw how nobody…

B.Ananda Rao M.A,M.Phil,(Ph.D) Asst.Prof, of English Sri Vasavi Engg College, Tadepalligudem. “A study of tradition and culture in the selected plays of Wole Soyinka and Girish karnad”. INTRODUCTION Wole Soyinka is the first African writer to win the Nobel…

Baka and Hadza v. Urban European Society: A Rebuttal of Thomas Hobbes Statement Regarding Life Outside of European Life Throughout existence, all sides of the globe have had ever-growing communities with different worldviews and perception of what society should look like. Communities like the ones seen in “The Baka: People of the Forest” and “The Hadza: Last of the First” widely differ from what westerners are used to seeing. The Baka people of the Baka community live in the southeast rain…

Esigie’s mother, Idia, the first “Queen Mother” (or “iyoba”) of Benin.*************** (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum) The people who created this were known as the Edo people, also called “Bini”, who are located in today’s southern Nigeria and speak a Volta-Niger language, which is one of the branches of the Niger-Congo language family. Their territory is from west of the Niger River all the way to the swamps in the Niger Delta. ***********(The Editors of Encyclopaedia…

Even though globalization is bringing rapid cultural change in Kenya, there are still various cultural aspects for different communities that are still being preserved till today and in the years to come. I am from the Kalenjin community and we engage in various activities that still preserve our culture. The first aspect is in regard to our community language. From a young age, children are still being taught our community language as they also learn the other commonly taught languages which…

continent of its natural resources as well as its people. Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart captures these detrimental effects of European colonization through the perspective of the African tribes themselves, specifically the Igbo people of Nigeria. The three-part story follows the life of Okonkwo, a strong and heavily revered clan member, whose village becomes disrupted by the arrival of Christian missionaries, whose teachings begin to radically shift the tribe’s culture into utter…

Longer By Sunday Njokede Former Lagos governor, Mr. Bola Tinubu had told protesters who gathered at his Ikoyi house to be patient that their miracle is on the way. If you flip the coin to the other side: Tinubu and his family are living large in Nigeria as the Italian Mafia. The Lagos politician has no moral ground to decide who should make sacrifices. Not when, he and his family are living fly like the Gambino crime family. What is hotter than this? The ex-governor is hovering around the…