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Colonialism as Eye-opener to African Continents or Democracy: A Study of (Six Selected Literary Texts) Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy, The Old Man and the Medal, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, Walter Rodney's How Europe under Developed Africa and Ngugi WA Thiong'o's Petals of Blood

Authors: Nnaji, Ikechukwu Christian;

Colonialism as Eye-opener to African Continents or Democracy: A Study of (Six Selected Literary Texts) Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy, The Old Man and the Medal, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, Walter Rodney's How Europe under Developed Africa and Ngugi WA Thiong'o's Petals of Blood

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The study focuses on ‘Colonialism as Eye-opener to African Continents or Democracy: A Study of (Seven Selected Literary Texts) Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy, The Old Man and the Medal, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, Walter Rodney’s How Europe under Developed Africa and Ngugi WA Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood. It also examines trends and historical epochs or periods that are relevant which inspired the works to social reality especially during the onset or offshoot of colonialism and Mau Mau which spurred Marxist dialectical ideology or materialism. The article provides a discursive analysis and various cultural situations, exploitations, marginalization, injustices in Kenyan, Congo, Nigeria and some African continents visited by imperialism which have not been restituted or compensated to Africans. The research methodology is impinged to library while sociological and historical / biographical criticisms or approaches are deployed in the study. The theoretical framework is subjected to empiricism concerning the themes or subject matter pursued in this article and writers’ lenses through turbulent and emerging African cultural polity under the influence of colonialism. The thrust and findings of this paper highlight the influence of colonialism which may inspire other African continents to demand for justice or struggle for independence to end colonial domination or injustices.

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Eye-opener, African Continents, Democracy, Study & Selected Literary Texts Colonialism as Eye-opener to African Democracy or Continents: A Study of (Seven Selected Literary Texts) Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy, The Old Man and the Medal, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, Walter Rodney's How Europe under Developed Africa and Ngugi WA Thiong'o's Petals of Blood, Eye-opener, African Continents, Democracy, Study & Selected Literary Texts Colonialism as Eye-opener to African Democracy or Continents: A Study of (Seven Selected Literary Texts) Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy, The Old Man and the Medal, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, Walter Rodney's How Europe under Developed Africa and Ngugi WA Thiong'o's Petals of Blood

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