... 's Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics, and the Modern South African State; and Frederick D. Lugard's The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart derives its title from a line from William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," which foretells the end of the world. And Achebe's novel indeed foreshadows the end of a world: the incursion of the ... . Consequently, when the British began to impose colonial governments, they consciously made use of a monarchical, patriarchal, xenophobic, and authoritarian pattern, which they assu...

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... set in the 1890s and portrays the clash between Nigeria's white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people. Achebe's novel shatters the stereotypical European portraits of native Africans. He is careful to portray the complex, advanced social institutions and artistic traditions of Igbo culture prior to its contact with Europeans. Yet he is just as careful not ... offers varying depictions of the white man, such as the mostly benevolent Mr. Brown, the zealous Reverend Smith, and the ruthlessly calculating District Commissioner. Achebe's Things Fall Apa...

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