In the novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe recounts this event from the perspective of Nigerians. Specifically‚ the novel describes the downfall of the Igbo society‚ which was overtaken slowly and stealthily by white men. The white men came into the clan to spread Christianity‚ and they accomplished this by winning over converts to completely disregard their native beliefs. The members of the clan that
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HUMANITIES AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: REFLECTIONS FROM IGBO POETRY. A PAPER PRESENTED AT THE 2012 FACULTY OF ARTS CONFERENCE ON THE THEME ‘HUMANITIES AND GOOD GOVERNANCE’. BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NKECHINYERE NWOKOYE (NEE OKEDIADI) DEPARTMENT OF IGBO‚ AFRICAN & ASIAN STUDIES NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY‚ AWKA nkyemeka@yahoo.com 08033833639 MAY 4TH- 6TH‚ 2012 HUMANITIES AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: REFLECTIONS FROM IGBO POETRY. Abstract Literature is a mirror of a society
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To start‚ the Ibo people have many societal rituals in their culture where women have major parts in them. For example‚ the Uri ritual is a ceremony where the suitor brings palm-oil to everyone in the bride’s family; this is primarily a woman’s ritual because the bride’s mother is expected to make food for the entire village with the help of other women. Also‚ during the Feast of the New Yam women have a role in taking the yams from the old harvest‚ and making yam foo-foo‚ which is a soup with mostly
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A Society with Soul “As the soil‚ however rich it may be‚ cannot be productive without cultivation‚ so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.” This quote by Seneca‚ a Roman philosopher‚ says that nothing good can ever come out of the absence of culture. Throughout history‚ many have argued that a society stripped of its culture is a society stripped of its soul. In the novel Things Fall Apart‚ the Ibo people are completely taken of their culture by the white colonialists. Despite
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should eat? Who says that you shouldn’t be able to eat four times a day or two times a day? Have you ever questioned things like this? If you have then you are a peculiar character and kudos to you! If you haven’t then you have a similarity with the Igbo culture. In Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe shows that if you keep on doing what you’ve always done you will keep on getting what you have always gotten. Achebe shows this through family‚ religion‚ and government. You can’t rule or be essential personnel
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The Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria practice a very intricate ritual of pre-marriage. The process includes a great deal of participation from others‚ including much of the extended family‚ not just the bride and groom. It also utilizes strict rules of progression throughout the engagement process. Tying into this is a sort of business like practice of exchanging a bride for many things of value. With all of these components coming together they form the Igbo engagement process (“Igbo Information
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Things Fall Apart depicts many details of how women shape and form the Igbo culture. However‚ throughout the novel women in the Igbo society are abused by their husbands due to trivial matters. Moreover‚ a woman in the Igbo society never has the opportunity to make a decision for herself‚ which makes them an object that is merely used as a pathway to success. Despite the toiling and dedication women put into helping the Igbo society‚ they are often left forgotten in the shadow of their husbands.
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Igbo’s land‚ their culture‚ values and their beliefs changed. These changes were extremely evident‚ but in the end the Igbo were unable to doing anything to stop the changes that had already start taking place in their society. As soon as the whites arrived‚ they introduced a new religion that was completely different than the natives were accustomed to. The white man told the Igbos that‚ “they worshipped false gods‚ gods of wood and stone‚” (145) also‚ he mentioned that there was only one God‚ the
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affects a country. It also helps the reader visualize the drastic changes the Igbo culture had to experience when another country decided to expand their reign into Umuofia and the surroundings clans. Characteristics such as Okonkwo‚ who was the fearless leader of Umuofia‚ were immensely afflicted. After all‚ Things Fall Apart is a work about loss of culture and tradition. During the on-going conflict between the Igbo and the missionaries‚ clns started to lose members to Christianity. This new‚
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Igbo Cultural Collision with Christian Religion How can a fictional character like Okonkwo make a statement about culture? The novel “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe answers this question and more by telling of the experience of an Igbo man named Okonkwo during the Christians colonization of Africa. In the story‚ The Christians arrive in Africa one day. Okonkwo wants his village‚ Umuofia‚ to run the Christians out of his land for their mistreatment and disrespect of Igbo religion and culture
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