Today, in class, we had a discussion on the historical context of an African Voice. We talked about how the story of 'Things Fall Apart' related to a lot of our personal lives. When we talked about the colonization of Igboland, I found that it was similar to the colonization of our countries. In India, there was a similar take-over of power. This lead to another discussion of the current ideas of some people in the USA. Some people in Southern USA still hold the same ideas of coloured people being 'slaves' and not equal to everyone else. This surprises me, as we've come so far into the future since the colonial times, but the concepts of some false stereotypes and discrimination have still not been let go. After a lot of discussion about this, I found my initial assumptions about the Western world as a completely fair society proven wrong, but I also got to learn about various cultures and how 'Things fall apart' is a book that can be related to by almost anyone.
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