Dr. Mexan Serge EPOUNDA

Faculté des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines
(Université Marien NGOUABI, BP 69 Congo - Brazzaville)

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i4-28

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ABSTRACT

This article aims at raising the different aspects of life of Nigerian people prior independence and exalting inheritance or profit this people has gained in return after their encounter with the white man. It is certain that the issue of colonization has been the concern of many African and even non-African writers. In fact, colonization has disrupted the socio-economic and political structures and replaced traditional values by another system of values that are not suitable for African customs. From the image the white man has painted Africans, colonization does not acknowledge the existence of pre-colonial values. Hence, by necessity, the African writer is placed in front of an essential and complex duty, that of reconstituting the actual image of his group, rehabilitating the past in substituting to the distorted image depicted by the colonizers the African vision of history. Accordingly, Chinua Achebe is one of those intellectuals who have tried to make his readers realize the specificity of the African personality. This state of affairs has been his preoccupation in Things Fall Apart, his first novel published in 1958. He has proved in this book that the encounter of Africa and the West has resulted in a clash of cultures.

KEYWORDS:

Clash of cultures, colonization, encounter, effects, writer, colonizer.

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