... white people, however, are missionaries, and they win a foothold in several of the Ibo villages. This in itself is interesting. Why, if the Ibo society is as stable and complacent as it would seem on the surface, would they tolerate -- and even collaborate with -- the presence of an alien culture which is actively trying to convert them into an entirely different mode of ... considerable amounts of colonial territory in Africa, and there the situation was no different; Anthony Butler, in his excellent book on South Africa, shows that the situation was the same there in an area originall...

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... can not, or chooses not to, communicate truthfully with those representatives of his pre-enlistment and innocent days. Further, he is repulsed by the banal and meaningless language that is used by members of that society. As he becomes alienated from his former, traditional, society, Baumer simultaneously ... father and his father's friends, Baumer attempts to reaffiliate with his past by once again becoming a resident of the place. Here, among his mementos, the pictures and postcards on the wall, the familiar and comfortable brown leather sofa, Baumer waits for something that will allo...

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