President of Nigeria

In the tragic play Death and the King’s Horseman by the Nigerian author Wole Soyinka in 1975, the author provides more insight into the periods of history by making clear allusions to the era of colonialism in Africa, and to World War 2. He is able to provide insights about the periods of history through his retelling of past events from the perspective of Africans. Given that Soyinka wrote the tragic play in 1975, he has been able to learn from others about the past and also lived through some…

There are a various ways to consider the meaning of the title (Heart of Darkness) on its own or as it relates to the story. The title implies that Africa is the Heart of Darkness, where white people (Marlow and Kurtz) go there to save Africans. Black natives are depicted living in darkness, needing to be brought into the light of civilization and white people seemingly have this enlightening knowledge. In the time of colonialism, Africa was frequently referred to as the "Dark Continent.” The…

The Nature of Blood in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the African Political Space By Segun Omosule Ph. D Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye.08052037088; jala1964@yahoo.com/omosulesegun@gmail.com/www.scholarsviews.com ABSTRACT The preoccupation of this paper is to prove that Macbeth and the orgies that are associated with him are borne out of fear and that the series of killings that are recorded during his reign are meant to prove that he is a fearless soldier and…

Portrayal of “Civilization” in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. To be civilized, according to the dictionary is to be, “educated in the usages of organized society”, but in Heart of Darkness Conrad compares an image of Africa with the view of Europeans in order to establish their superiority as a “civilized” nation. Conrad’s way of representing Africa and portraying natives as niggers and common savages shows how indigenous Africans are considered “uncivilized” through the use of harsh words…

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…

upon the world”(2-4). Miscommunication and cultural ignorance have often been the basis of violence and conflict. This is certainly the case in Things Fall Apart, which explores the impact of European colonization of the Ibo people in modern day Nigeria. The novel revolves around its protagonist, Okonkwo, a powerful leader in his clan who eventually succumbs to suicide because he is unable to adjust to the changes to society that the Europeans brought. In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart,…

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…

of coming of age sparks knowledge into political realities within the short story “in the shadow of war” by Ben Okri and social realities within the short story “boys and girls” by Borden Deal. “In the shadow of war” takes place in West Africa in Nigeria during the Nigerian civil war. The narrator, being a young boy (Omovo) and the protagonist of the story has been told about the incoming eclipse by his father. When Omovo follows a mysterious veiled women into the woods, he witnesses the…