Chinua Achebe/Anthills of the Savannah
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A 5 page essay that offers a synopsis and analysis of Chinua Achebe's novel Anthills of the Savannah (1987). The writer also discusses the major themes. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khachant.wps

Chinua Achebe/Dead Men's Path
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An 8 page essay that addresses this short story by Achebe. Roughly the first three pages of this paper are a research proposal that discusses the essay and what it will address. The remainder of the paper is the essay which looks at Achebe's short story "Dead Men's Path," which tells the narrative of a young, diligent educator, Michael Obi, who is appointed to be headmaster at Ndume Central School. Examination of this story shows the influence that Western, so-called "modern ideas" have had on Obi, which demonstrates the influence of colonialism. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khobi.rtf

Chinua Achebe/women in Umuofian Society
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A 6 page essay that discusses what can be inferred about the position of women in Umuofian culture based on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. No additional sources cited.
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Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and a Revaluation of Values
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This 7 page report discusses Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel about a village in pre-colonial Nigeria. The concept of things falling apart in “Things Fall Apart” comes from the many ways in which the life of the main character, Okonkwo, changes in ways he is powerless to understand. “Things” are simply not the way Okonkwo believes they should be and they certainly are not the way they were in the “good ol’ days.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Cloud Nine; Post Colonial Theory Portrayed Through Gender Repression
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This 9 page paper considers the role of gender and race in Caryl Churchill's play 'Cloud Nine'. This play uses disruptive gender performances to illustrate the way in society has repressed and enforced its ideals on those who should have bee free to develop without the interference of pressurised expectations and enforced social perceptions. The parallels between gender repression and the effects of post colonialism are explored and illustrated with numerous quotes form the play. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
Filename: TEclonie.wps

Common Reality in “A Walk in the Night”
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This 5 page paper discusses the commonalities among several characters in the story, “A Walk in the Night” by South African writer Alex La Guma. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: HVWlkNte.rtf

Community and Individual in Things Fall Apart
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A five page paper which analyses the interrelationship between community and individual in Chinua Achebe’s novel of nineteenth-century Africa, Things Fall Apart. The writer looks at the way in which the protagonist’s decline and eventual demise mirror the collapse of his community, and how the flaws of the individual are reflected in the flaws of the society, and are, in the end, fatal to both. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JLachebe.wps

Comparative Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s “Marriage is a Private Affair” and Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”
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A 5 page paper which examines the conflict each story’s characters face between remaining loyal to their cultural customs and seeking out the contemporary urban world, the choices and sacrifices each must make, as well as their consequences. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGachale.rtf

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease
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In five pages this paper provides a comparative character analysis of similarities in terms of how both Olunde and Obi are caught between cultures and how their stories end tragically, differences in circumstances, feeling, and meaning, and how these differences imply different political and cultural situational differences in Nigeria presented by the authors. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
Filename: TGolundobi.rtf