CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Politico Europe, Chinua Achebe, Protestantism
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Area that we now know as modern nigeria was a british property. Christianity: achebe"s family converted to protestant, and so achebe grew up in a mixed religion environment. Achebe"s most famous novel, first book in what publishers called the (cid:498)african trilogy(cid:499) The novels grouped together as they offer a history of nigeria by representing different moments in the nigerian past. Important that we note nigeria was only unified as a territory by britain; colonial invention to unify nigeria as a nation. Important to think about how this novel relates to how achebe wanted to see. Decentralized forms of government structure of separate but loosely centralized villages largest populations probably included igbo, and other territories, making a north and south division with the north holding more power. Igbo resistant thinking of themselves as individual entity. 1967-1970: nigerian biafran war (suggesting igbo fighting for their own independency) or nigerian civil war (suggesting a more negative revolt of the.
