Violence In Things Fall Apart

Achebe and Fanon talk about colonial authority and colonial violence on colonial subjects. The authors feel violence is the only way to preserve sense of identity. For each book I will talk about three examples of how the books show negative effects of colonial authority and three examples of how they show violence is necessary to preserve their autonomy. In the book Things Fall Apart by Achebe in 1958, Okonkwo is a powerful man in an Ibo village in Nigeria. Okonkwo gets banned from his country and has to move to his motherland. There is conflict between the individual and society. In the book The Wretched of the Earth by Fanon in 1961 it talked about Algeria was a brutal place by French colonialization. The natives has no high utility, the
“Does the white man understand our custom about land?” “How can he when he does not even speak out tongue? But he says that our customs are bad. How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us? The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.” (Achebe, P.176) The people didn’t think anything of the white people when they first came. They let them set up the church and have land to do that. Little did they know the know religion would be so popular. Okonkwo’s family was separated about this cause Nwoye left the Ibo culture. The tribe has turned against each other and how can they fight against the white people when some of their own is with them. Going against the missionaries means going against your own as well. Okonkwo is angry that the white men just came to their tribe area and took away some of their people with their religion. Some Ibo people feel that the white people don’t care one bit about their religion because they are just taking away their people. Religion and tradition is the only things that keep this tribe together and from falling apart. This quotation shoes the disrespect towards Igbo
It contents itself with bringing to light the natural resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country’s industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of underdevelopment and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.” (Fanon) In the reading it talks about the superiority of the higher ups were taking advantage of the majority of the people below them. The colonist take everything they need from the county and will give nothing back in return. They help other countries but leave most people in the current country with nothing. They profit from the natural resources in one country and sell it someplace else. So the rich people get richer and the poor people get poorer. This turns a country with a lot of people in