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Pre Colonial Excellent Job
702 wordsI really enjoyed reading the book Things Fall Apart. Achebe did an excellent job of portraying the pre-colonial culture of the Ibo. This book was not only educational, but entertaining as well. His ability to focus mainly on one individual and still show the complexity of the entire clans beliefs and self-governing tactics was incredible. It is hard to believe that he was able to show us so many aspects of the pre-colonial culture in so few pages. This book definitely left me wanting to learn mo...
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Reading This Book Writing This Book
1,573 wordsIn the book Things Fall Apart, China Achebe is trying to give an explanation of what it is like to live in an African society. The story is about a man named Okonkwo who is a member of the Ibo tribe. Achebe is telling the story of Okonkwo from his childhood till his death. Before I read this book I did not have a very good idea of how people lived in Africa, and the ideas of I did have about life in traditional African societies turned out to be untrue. Achebe did a very good job of illustrating...
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Husband And Wife Men And Women
1,826 wordsThere are several ways one can look at the status of women in any society. During the last decade at least three approaches, not necessarily mutually exclusive, were discernible. One was to examine the common demographic indicators that give an overall picture of womens relative standing vis-? -vis men. According to the 1981 census, the se ratio stood at 933 females per 1000 males. The literacy rate was 46. 89 per cent for males and 24. 82 per cent for females. The life expectancy at birth for f...
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