Colonization Of The Igbo Tribe Summary

Colonization of the Igbo Tribe Colonization as defined by the Oxford Dictionary is the act of settling or moving in and establishing a political control in an indigenous place. Colonization was primarily done because of three reasons. First, to use a territory in establishing a commercial interest; Second, to escape persecution; Third: in order to gain imperial foothold and extend the grasp of political power in other territories. (Yang, 2014) This derives us in to thinking that colonialism was done in order to enrich the mother land of the colonizers. During trade, a large part of the revenue goes to the colonizers rather than the owner of the land. This led to the inattention to the supplication of needs for the citizens of the places that

The first three lines questions the motives of the colonizers where they claim to be for civilization and education yet they come with guns. The second stanza talks about the relationship presented by the colonizers which is friendship but the author questions why they are being whipped and why the colonizers covet what they have. Finally, third and fourth stanza expresses the author’s desire to get rid of the colonizers, to regain their lives and everything that was taken away from them. In the last three stanzas, the author is firm on its stand to drive the colonizers away by saying “go colonialism, go” and begging for freedom. The last line of the poem is “it’s sunrise in Africa” which may be a symbolism for a new beginning in Africa as the colonizers are to be driven away. Colonialism not only affected the economic growth and development of Africa, it also changed the work and gender roles of the place. Due to the drop in cash crop economy, women and children were forced to perform the bulk of labour in farming. (Settles, 1996)

Gender

Growing up, the narrator experienced a fair share of time between her mother and father. She described her father as a man of few words who would only talk to her things about work during the times that she assisted him with work while her mother was the more talkative one. Her mother told her stories about her past, the parties she had attended to and the guys who had courted her. Most of the time, the narrator spent time with her father helping him do his work. But a few years later, the narrator noticed the change in their household. Her mom no longer told her stories and used the word “plotting” to describe her mother who always had different schemes in order to keep her in the house to help with household chores. She had a suspicion that her mother did not appreciate her staying out of the house and helping her