Politics of Nigeria

Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is a novel with a plot immersed in social and political themes, allusions, and messages. Most notably, the novel can be interpreted as an exposition on British imperialism in Africa. At the time of its original publication, “Heart of Darkness” exposed a Western audience to African communities that, while fictitious, were quite representative. Most Western accounts of Africans in the late 19th century and early 20th century characterized Africans as being…

Saint Thomas A. Becket was born on December 21st of 1118 in London to a prosperous London merchant. Growing up fast and receiving a good education it was no surprise when he became an agent to Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, who sent him on several missions in Rome. His outstanding excellence was soon noticed by Henry the Second who after seeing his great efforts made him his chancellor and the two quickly became close friends. After Theobald’s death, Henry gave Becket his job making him…

Cultural collisions between different groups of people that are forced to live together are bound to happen, especially if those two groups have completely different ways of life. Chinua Achebe depicts what cultural collision can do to two different groups of people in his novel Things Fall Apart between the main character Okonkwo and the colonizers that come to his village, Umuofia. Okonkwo, an aggressively over-masculine, hot-tempered, traditional man, comes to face his old traditions and ways…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The ROYAL SHELL DUTCH usually called as SHELL by people all over the world. And, is known as SPDC in Nigeria (Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited). SPDC along with JV with NNPC, NAOC and TOTAL had planned to develop the Dodo - NAG Wells Project to meet the objectives of the company. Along with business objectives the idea of SPDC was to help locals by supplying domestic gas and bring the gas flares down (Flaring into atmosphere also known as emission of…

Ezeulo had a half brother by name Okeke Onenyi who had a grudge against Ezeulu becoming the Chief Priest of Umuaro. Ezeulu did not invite him for the ritual of the Covering-Up sacrifice for Obeka’s wife and allowed a worthless medicine man to perform the ritual. This itself proves that Ezeulu did certain acts of rituals because of social obligation and concern for his clan. It is because in the Ibo community parenthood is not a private concern and that is why he does not allow his half…

This term paper had the goal to outline Joseph Conrad’s short story “An Outpost of Progress” in terms of a Postcolonial Gothic reading. Within the domain of Postcolonialism, scholars differentiate between literature, whose plot occurs in the height of European colonialism, and works that emphasise the certain effects of colonialisation. However, both types of colonial texts reinforce the crucial exploitation undertaken by Europeans as well as their forcibly imposed civilisation, which causes the…

The western portion of the island of New Guinea is involved West Papua. West Papua is understood as the world's one of the biggest asset wealthiest nations which has high substance of unrefined petroleum, copper, gold and timber from its rainforests, which is a territory to tree kangaroos and excellent winged creatures. The number of inhabitants in West Papua comprises of roughly one million, whereby the locals generally make due on chasing and assembling. Prior to the year 1949, West Papua…

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (MGT 4050) ASSIGNMENT 1 “The Reservation Nightmare” BY: NJENGA ROSEMARY WAMBUI ID NO. 639835 UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY-AFRICA LECTURER: MR. MAINA MACHARA The Reservation Nightmare 1. Summarize the service failures associated with this experience I agree fully with Mr. Harrington that his experience was a nightmare. As a potential customer I would take my money elsewhere to avoid what he went through. The failures associated with this…

VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURES OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA INTRODUCTION Over time Architecture has changed dramatically resulting in there being different types of architectural styles throughout the world. As an existing architectural style, Vernacular Architecture continuously addresses contemporary societal challenges. This is known as indigenous architecture, which is a style that is based on reflecting local traditions, local needs and availability of materials for construction. Vernacular…

Things fall apart written by Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian depicts a story of pre and post-colonial life of the Igbo society in Umuofia. The story begins with vivid descriptions of Okonkwo, the main character of this novel and how he defies odds to claim the status he has in his society. Even with a bad role model father, he copes to succeed in his life through his accomplishments as a fighter for his village, marrying three wives and managing his farm. One day, he was exiled to Mbanta as a…