European coloniser? Chinua Achebe was one of Africa’s most influential and widely published writers. He was "Born on the 16th of November 1930 in Ogidi‚ an Igbo village a few miles from the Niger River in what was then the British-ruled colony of Nigeria" . Achebe was a prominent Igbo writer‚ infamous for his novels depicting the effects of Western customs and beliefs on a traditional African society. A much praised African classic "a great book‚ that bespeaks a great‚ brave‚ kind human spirit
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Ease From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo (also spelled Ibo) man‚ Obi Okonkwo‚ who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service‚ but who struggles to adapt to a Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the sequel to Achebe ’s Things Fall Apart‚ which concerned the struggle of Obi Okonkwo ’s grandfather Okonkwo against the changes brought by
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The Nigerian Civil War Between 1870 and 1900 the continent of Africa and the Africans that inhabited it endured a European imperialist push that ended with the entire African continent‚ except for the nations of Ethiopia and Liberia under the colonial boot of the European powers. The European nations of Belgium‚ Britain‚ France‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ Portugal and Spain carved up the continent between them without regards to the African nations‚ ethnic‚ religious and tribal rivalries or even geographical
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Nigeria has had a long hard struggle in keeping its democratic independence. The military has taken over numerous times‚ leaving democracy severely handicapped. Nigerians have clamored‚ conversed‚ fought and died over their democracy. But has Nigeria’s democracy ever belonged to all Nigerians? In attempting to give background to this question and insight into the answer I have attempted to piece together the important events leading up to the 1959 election. I will touch on Britain’s colonization
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Africa as the Centerpiece of Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Upon independence in 1960 Nigeria’s major foreign policy aim has been in the restoration of the African dignity and this became the centerpiece of the countries foreign policy. Africa has remained the centerpiece of the Nigerian foreign policy since independence when it was adopted under President Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. In his acceptance speech at the United Nations on October 8‚ 1960‚ Balewa clearly portrayed Africa as the foremost concern
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1970 the United States of America was fighting a war in Vietnam. In the late 1960s and early 1970s‚ a large percentage of American people were a free love and peaceful society. Over 6‚000 miles away in Nigeria‚ citizens were not even safe in their own homes because of the fear of being killed. Nigeria was in a crisis; they were in a civil war. The civil war included three different tribes: the Biafra (Igbo) people‚ the Yoruba‚ and the Hausa-Fulani. The conflict was so bad that the United Nations had
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Till this day‚ there are new contemporary scholars and authors that come forth in Nigeria to share their views on the political and social conflicts in the community. At the age of thirty one‚ Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie already has a following that writers twice her age would envy. Her first novel‚ Purple Hibiscus‚ debut to critical acclaim. Her second novel‚ Half of a Yellow Sun‚ quickly established her as one of the leading voices of her generation. She is a renowned author whose work has
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so heavily seem powerless against “the albinos.” The Igbo people were a strong community‚ strength that could have helped keep their culture alive and their belief system resilient against the introduction of the one God belief by the British colonials and their plan to missionize all the lost souls of the land. But the strength that they truly had with their people were limited within the vast amount of clans that they formed separately from one another‚ like the Umuofia clan that Okonkwo was
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AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT AND SELF-RELIANCE: PANACEA TO AMELIORATE UNEMPLOYMENT IN AFRICA Adebisi David‚ ALADE Department of History and International Studies Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko‚ Ondo State‚ Nigeria 2348064151074; 2348024615670 aladeadebisidavid@yahoo.com Abstract In African states‚ there is high tempo of following the residual paths of Western thinkers such as Plato‚ Aristotle and John Locke‚ in the quest to formulate sound thoughts and policies. While nothing is inherently
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The Media and the Democratic Process in Nigeria (1) By Professor Sam Oyovbaire T HE value of the media in the development of the Nigerian nation-state became prominent in the struggle by the Founding Fathers of Nigerian nationalism against British colonial rule and imperialism‚ mildly in the late 1920s and much more forcefully from about 1944. As the struggle intensified‚ and colonial ruleinaugurated a process of tactical retreat through negotiation with the emergent yet fragmented political
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