Please answer the following questions in as much detail as possible. Make sure to answer ALL PARTS of each question:
Each answer must be at least THREE double-spaced typed pages with Font 12, Times Roman.
Question 1: (100 Points)
What is your general understanding of postcolonialism? Please discuss the significance of native cultures using Chinweizu and Ngugi Thiog’O’s essays from the reader. Please also incorporate a discussion of P’Bitek’s two poems.
Resources:
Postcolonialism: https://youtu.be/6xW_iIopQ5o (Links to an external site.
Chinweizu: https://youtu.be/y-vQHbQ3xm4 (Links to an external site.
Ngugi: https://youtu.be/bJZCsGACirk (Links to an external site.)
P’Bitek: https://youtu.be/PTUyCkU9q40 (Links to an external site.)
Question 2: (200 Points)
In what sense, in terms of its novelistic form, is Things Fall Apart a quintessentially Western Novel? How Does Achebe teach us about the Igbo culture? Discuss the techniques he uses with examples from the novel.
Resources: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW4ijepGeAnaZeDpskc2U3S6ZRYW9IQxr (Links to an external site.)
Question 3: (100 Points)
How has this course enabled you to develop a more nuanced approach to questions of life within a diverse culture? Please use three examples from the course materials to elaborate your points.
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