HISTORY 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Things Fall Apart, Bargaining
21 Mar 2016
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Things fall apart clash between older pre-colonial sensibilities and colonial realities. Tries to reconstruct a whole set of pre-colonial institutions. Precolonial systems of administration - where power was vested in identifiable individuals. Were adopted by colonial state to use to rule. Colonialism creates its own hierarchy of colonial administrators including white colonial administrators at the top and at the bottom, a whole range of african intermediaries, incl chiefs and headmen. Introduction of new faiths and spaces multiple identities that some people begin to adopt and the kind of struggling that takes place, the tensions that begin to emerge. Introduction of christianity, new political authority structure, reactions of indigenous population. Not a clear cut binary kind of response, some ppl begin to identify processes they see to be beneficial, but others that they also see as destructive to the community. Some ppl feel like they don"t see anything good at all. Unoka okonkwo"s father who is lazy, owes many debts.
