President of Nigeria

Ever since UNICEF initiated their activities in Africa, in general, and in Nigeria in particular, the organization has met with numerous difficulties and rather struggle to deliver their services to the community in the righteous way. Nigerian community has an extensive distrust with Western culture, the people are compelled to have negative expectations toward Western organizations, especially ones that work through the government such as UNICEF. (Obadare, 2005) The reason behind this…

A Singular Perspective In her speech, “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie used relatable personal experiences, pathos, dialogues, statistics, and symbolism to convince her audience to see the complication of human beings. The purpose of Adichie’s message was to provide another perspective on the danger of a single story. The single story presented is actually multi-faceted as many perspectives yield different responses. For example, people here ask Adichie about the weather…

In her speech, Chimamanda recounts an event that happened in Nigeria, saying: ‘Recently a young woman was gang raped in a university in Nigeria. And the response of many young Nigerians, both male and female, was something along the lines of this: “Yes, rape is wrong. But what is a girl doing in a room with four boys?”’ Degrading lyrics reinforce the…

A father-son relationship is an important part of a boy's development . In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is a powerful clan leader in Umuofia and his father poor choices in his life has driven Okonkwo to achieve success. Okonkwo is a hardworking and violent man and more successful than his father, Unoka. Unoka was a failure and it was how it shaped Okonkwo as a person and Okonkwo expects his children to follow his footsteps and become successful as him. The conflict is based on…

Imagine living in an unstable country where there is nothing but flat, dry land, monotonous and limitless scrubs of waste, and minimal to no sign of relief. There is asphyxiating dust everywhere― on the dead leaves, claw-like branches, and rugged streets. The same streets where poorly clothed and skeletal children sleep, eat, and scatter around for money to put in their rusted tin containers. The government has collapsed and is being controlled by corrupt political leaders and military coups.…

Religion is often used to explain things and occurring events. It’s used to explain things that logic and even science can’t explain or comprehend. Now, in the novel, “Things Fall Apart”, Chinua Achebe focuses and emphasis on the cultural aspects that are altered during pre and post colonialism. One of the cultural aspects that is disturbed is the Igbo religion. On the arrival, the missionaries immediately try to belittle the Igbo tribe simply because they don’t understand their beliefs. To…

A leader of a tribe, a father, a husband, a friend, a man, Okonkwo ends his life by hanging himself. Was it to show bravery or was it because he was a coward. Was it a choice that showed his weakness or was it to show how strong he was? Some believe he was strong and courages because ending own’s life is a very hard thing to do. Some believe he was a coward and killed himself because he lost his leadership of his tribe. Okonkwo kills himself because he lost his place as the tribe leader. A…

Overdoing It Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a book with wild decision making from a man named Okonkwo. He is the son of a loser father who dies with many unpaid debts. Okonkwo unlike his father becomes a successful warrior of his clan. He is determined to not be anywhere close to how his father lived his life. On one of his negotiations for two clans to make peace he gets a boy named Ikemefuna. They become close to the point of Ikemefuna calling him father. Later during the week of peace…

Stripped of Your Culture, Stripped of Your Soul “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, as well as gentle manners.” Robert A. Heinlein,the dean of science fiction writers, believes. The overthrowing of a culture isn’t just a greed for power and land, but a misunderstanding of hearts. At the turn of the 19th century, white missionaries came to colonize Africa, which began the Scramble of Africa.…

SINGLE STORY CAN DAMAGE THE IDENTITY We heard about bad things about Africa ,due to how we grew up without knowing what is good and bad ,to my view i feel that it is good to do research and be educated ,don’t judge people according to how you see them ,the reason why am saying this is because we have heard alot of negativity about African that is one side of a story, i kind of relate this story of Adichie where she said about how she travels to London to study and her roommates was pity…