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Cultural Stagnation and Colonial Disruptions in Things Fall Apart

Dr. S Varalakshmi Ramani

Abstract

The Paper explores the fall of natives and the gentle rise of colonizers. The colonizers started to dominate the natives via of political, cultural and administrative platforms. Most colonized countries were colonized up to the 19th century, then the countries became independent. Still, the colonized countries are following the culture and administrative methods of the British. The colonized countries had lost their culture and their own identity. In the novel, Things Fall Apart the Igbo people lost their culture and also lost the great wrestler's history. Still today, formerly colonized countries have a conflict between their tradition and the culture of the Britishers.

Keywords:African literature, Things Fall Apart, Igbo culture, British colonialism

Introduction

African literature is literature that originated from Africa. It might be in oral or written form in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. The pre-colonial African literature traced back to at least the 4th century AD. Themes in African literature in the colonial period were liberation and independence and also the themes of the battle between tradition and the modern, past condition, and present conditions as well as including the politics and development of the nation, etc.

According to George Joseph's notes, African literature includes the usage of artistic words for the sake of art alone. They do not separate the art from the teaching through this African literature; they communicate facts, truths, and some information to society. Oral literature may be in prose or verse. Here the prose might be mythological or historical and include archetypal characters (god, spirit, anthro-po-morphi-zation). Poems often included themes around praising rulers, rituals, narrative epic, occupational verse, etc. Those that recited the epic (bards) called ?griots? and they told their stories with music.

This oral tradition exists in many languages like Fula, Swahili, Hausa, and Wolof. The oral tradition contains strong emotions among the audiences. It has strong feelings and contains an emotional attachment to the African culture. In the Berber tradition people needed this oral tradition because the majority population of this Berber tradition were illiterate. In Algeria, these poems are said to be Is Efra. They focused on the aspects of both secular and religious life.

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