that sometimes included slavery‚ chiefdoms dominated by powerful clan leaders or “big men” and extensive storage of food. Agricultural Village Societies: The Igbo and the Iroquois Igbo Society – East of the Niger River‚ in the heavily forested region of W. Africa. Rejected kingship and state-building efforts of their neighbors. “the Igbo have no kings” – relied on other institutions to maintain social cohesion beyond the level of the village: title societies in which wealthy men received a series
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endeavored to shift the people away from the superstitious and what they saw as primitive practices of their culture to the supposedly more “civilized” precepts of Christianity. Achebe does not gloss over the cruelty and superstition that prevailed in Igbo culture; in fact‚ he even shows that it was
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kills a boy and he has to be exiled for his crime. During his exile he becomes more aware of white missionaries that want to convert the Igbos who were exiled to Christianity. Just before his exile ends‚ he finds out that his son has converted to Christianity. Okonkwo’s pride makes him disown his own blood related son. Okonkwo’s pride takes place again when the Igbo people decide not to go to war with the white men‚ Okonkwo was enraged. In that enraged state of mind he decides to hang himself. It’s
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U N I V E R S I T Y O F L A G O S D E P A R T M E N T O F E N G L I S H M . A . L I T E R A T U R E C O U R S E W O R K: M O D E R N N I G E R I A N D R A M A : S O C I O - C U L T U R A L A N D W E S T E R N I N F L U E N C E S N A M E : A G B A M U A G H O G H O M A T R I C U L A T I ON N U M B E R : 1 0 9 0 1 3 0 4 6 C O U R S E : M O D E R N N I G E R I A N D R A M A E N G 8 5 6 QUESTION: HOW HAS MODERN NIGERIAN DRAMA BEEN INFLUENCED
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Everything Good Will Come heralds the full-length debut of a powerful new voice in feminist fiction - Sefi Atta‚ whose short stories have garnered acclaim from Red Hen Press and Zoetrope‚ among others. Told in the voice of Enitan Taiwo‚ a young woman living in Lagos‚ Nigeria‚ in the aftermath of that country’s independence‚ Everything Good Will Come’s narrative covers nearly thirty years and is framed by the lifelong friendship between Enitan and Sheri‚ a half-caste neighbor girl with a sharp tongue
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Chapter 2 Protest movement in Nigeria In democracy‚ having a wide spread number of people tell the government that they do not like its practices could herald to protest movements. As thus‚ it is a very effective way of getting changes made and raising or revisiting issues. History of protest movement During the 19th and early 20th century‚ Nigerians sought and found ways to oppose the foreign rule. As the middle classes and the working classes became more educated‚ there came with it‚ the desire
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Heritage Assessment In our day to day job as nurses‚ we come across patients from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. It is our duty to make them feel at ease with the care they are receiving and to be able to do so‚ it is imperative that nurses become culturally competent by understanding how the patients’ culture influences their views on health protection‚ maintenance and restoration. Culture is a pattern of behavior and values shared by an ethnic group (Winkleman‚ 2001). The Heritage
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Culture can have a positive or negative influence on people depending on how it is presented. Culture is presented as a negative influence on the characters’ behavior in each of these stories by their amounts of freedom. In "Museum Indians‚" "Hello Kitty Packs Heat‚" and Things Fall Apart a certain group of people are singled out by having little freedom. In "Museum Indians" by Susan Power‚ the modern Indians have the least amount of freedom. In "Hello Kitty Packs Heat‚" Tina Lee‚ the author‚ has
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Achebe‚ in Things Fall Apart‚ demonstrates how the women in the Igbo society do not get to live the life they may desire because of how they are not treated- with no equality. To the Igbo tribe‚ it is the man who is more superior. Achebe talks about Okonkwo’s desires for Nwoye when he says: “He wanted him to be a prosperous man‚ having enough in his barn to feed the ancestors
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For Nwoye and Achebe these values set the basis for our identity to be built upon. Nwoye is brought up with traditional Igbo values. His father‚ Okonkwo‚ stresses the importance of not being seen as “a woman” (65) and frowns upon feminine qualities such as being sensitive‚ emotional and sympathizing with others. Furthermore‚ he is told “stories of violence and bloodshed”
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