Emergence of African Faultline in Western History: A Study of Things Fall Apart
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.58213/ell.v5i1.59Abstract
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic, was raised in the Igbo town of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria. Fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, his novels focus on the traditions of Igbo society, the effects of Christian influence and the clash between African and Western values during and after the colonial era. His style relies heavily on Igbo oral traditions, folk stories, proverbs and oratory. His works adequately represent an early African nationalist tradition that repudiates the imperialist and colonialist ideology. The aim of this paper is to focus on the complexities of ‘Inculturation’ of African communities within Western cultural framework whose conflictual syncretism created a faultline within social, cultural and religious aspects of African life
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