POLS 3000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Real Change, Templin, Michela Wrong

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Story draws similarities between western life and. Explores the concept of the african big man . Expresses the dullness of mundanity of african life. Provides insight to the life of a relatively privileged women in nigeria. Achebe is one of the most prominent african. Julius nyerere democracy and the party system. The short story about elections involves corruption, patronage, and an absence of loyalty to anyone but the wealthiest candidate. Story says a lot about politics in the region soon after independence. Order is the first step for democracy to grow. Independence lead to competition rather than brotherhood. Colonialism was familiar, independence brought out a sense of insecurity. It is important that the party be prominent and supreme because it binds all layers of the population. Praised certain aspects of colonialism using arguments from achebe. Africans tended to migrate to where colonialism was the strongest. British had the experience of governing and doing it competently .