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No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe5/27/2023 The novel shows the difference between two cultures, and Achebe puts emphasis on the superiority of English culture and depicts how colonialism and Western orientalism produce stereotyped images of Nigerians and Obi as corrupt. Achebe in his novel shows how this effort causes some binary relation among the characters. Indeed, the colonizer imposes his/her superiority on the natives who try to assimilate themselves with the colonizer. Moreover, the colonizer through stereotyping the colonized people assumes them as other. Such effects cause some cultural transformation and changes in language of the colonized people. The colonisers affect the life, mind, culture, and identity of the colonized through various ways such as education, religion, and language. Edward Said's (1935-2003) attempts regarding Orientalism and Frantz Fanon's (1925-1961) issues relating inferiority of the indigenous people caused by colonization are used in this paper. The focus of this paper is on the dissemination of English culture and submission of Nigerian culture in order to represent the inferiority of Nigerians. This paper deals with Chinua Achebe's (1930-2013) "No Longer at Ease" (1960) which depicts the dissemination of English culture in Nigeria and its effects on the life and identity of Obi Okonkwo, the Western educated male protagonist.
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