the end of the colonial era were primarily concerned with reinterpreting African history from an indigenous point of view that stressed the dignity of the African past. Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart (1952). AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS Wole‚ Soyinka (Born in Nigeria‚ July 13‚ 1934) is the foremost English language poet and certainly the most celebrated playwright of Black Africa. His work earned him the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature. Combining Western dramatic forms with music‚ dance‚ and
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A Grain of Wheat Summary A Grain of Wheat chronicles the events leading up to Kenyan independence‚ or Uruhu‚ in a Kenyan village. Gikonyo and Mumbi are newlyweds in love when Gikonyo is sent to detention. When he comes back six years later‚ Mumbi has carried and given birth to his rival’s child. Instead of talking about their trials‚ a wall of anger separates them. Mumbi’s brother Kihika‚ a local hero‚ is captured and hanged‚ and his comrades search for the betrayer. Mugo becomes a hero through
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1. Oxford (1996): Oxford Concise Dictionary of Sociology. New York‚ Oxford University Press. Rotimi‚ A. (2005): ‘Violence in the Citadel: The Menace of Secret Cults in the Nigerian Universities. Nordic Journal of African Studies‚ Vol. 12‚ No. 1. Soyinka‚ W. (2002): ‘Cults Counterculture and Perils of Ignorance’. Nigerian Tribune‚ 19 December. Thomas‚ D. (2002): ‘F9 – Cultists’. The Week‚ 14 February. Cultism. (2009). In the Free Dictionary. Retrieved February 04‚ 2009‚ from the Free Dictionary Online:
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I. GEOGRAPHIC AND TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF AFRICA A. Location 1. Africa is the world’s second largest continent with an area of 30‚ 368‚ 609 km2 including adjacent islands. Most of its island is plateau. 2. The continent of Africa is centrally located on the earth’s surface and lies between the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Indian Ocean in the East. 3. Africa has five distinct regions. The main regions are North Africa‚ West Africa‚ East Africa‚ Central Africa and South Africa. B. Topography
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In the novel 1984 the party also known as the government in the novel demands loyalty to Big Brother. Totalitarianism is a system of the government that is dictatorial. Totalitarianism requires complete loyalty to the government. The party seeks to control everything. The goal of the party is to control the citizens and manipulate information. They manipulate information by erasing‚ recreating‚ or modifying the truth in history. The citizens of Oceania are not allowed to keep written records of their
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sister. Despite her mother’s beliefs‚ Kainene‚ her twin sister‚ is a very different character to her About This Guide The questions‚ discussion topics‚ and suggestions for further reading that follow are intended to enhance your group’s conversation about Half of a Yellow Sun‚ a richly imagined story of the disastrous war between Nigeria and Biafra‚ largely forgotten in the West‚ which won the 2007 Orange Prize in Britain and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. About
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5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature Reading Literature Previewing
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Conflict Management and Resolution PLSC 872 What is the French policy of ASSIMILATION about‚ what did scholars like Leopold Senghor mean by the term Negritude as a strategy for countering that French policy and what is the place of the two in the methodology of ethnic conflict management? INTRODUCTION The trajectory of this paper is within the purview of Conflict Resolution and Management. However‚ it traverses a historical path that takes us back to the era of colonialism in Africa‚ the Afrocentric
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Hron (2010) demonstrates Immigrants are forced to pretend that nothing is happened wrong with them because of migration‚ they do pretend this before their relatives in the homeland and new people of the host country. They want to create a scenario so people think they are successful after immigration (p‚ xiv). This very pretending of making a suitable image of a successful immigrant leaves them nowhere. They feel totally shattered and isolated. They suffer for two times they deprive of both voice
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’The Empire Writes Back’ will have been a fitting title for this essay collection. (especially since Achebe doesn’t fail to pay a tribute to Salman Rushdie’s essay of the same name published in 1982). Because that is what the running theme here is - a reclamation of a land and a culture that was wrested away with brutal force and made a part of an ’Empire’ which still insists on viewing that period as one of glory and not characterized by the most despicable human rights violation ever and a heralding
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