Chinua Achebe and the Language of the Colonizer

A powerful control tool used by Chinua Achebe and the colonial colonial period is a language tool. Language is an important part of people's culture - they express their folklore, myths, proverbs and history through their language. For this reason, imperialism always destroys your language and attempts to replace it with your own language. As Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin point out, there are two possible reactions to this control - rejection and subversion.

Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930 and lives in the area where Ibo people live. At this point, Nigeria was governed by Britain, they were already colonized, or they had political, economic and social control of the country. Prior to British colonial rule, Nigeria was divided into religious beliefs and words into towns leading to larger villages. Due to Achebe 's successful career success, he was invited to be taught for many years at various American schools, including Massachusetts College, Amherst University and Brown University. Achebe is a literary critic who challenges the traditional understanding of many famous books from an African perspective.

The colonization of Nigeria influenced warts culture and its people in various ways. In the novel "Chin Fall Achebe", the writer depicts the events in the novel reflecting the real experience he has. Many of the events in the novel include colonization and how it affects various members of society. - Chinua Achebe has been very successful in developing new and unique African English. Written words in English include figurative languages ​​such as proverbs, folklore, similarities, metaphors of African culture. In addition, other writers believe that this novel is not written in Akhbe's language, so should not be regarded as an African novel. From the perspective of spiritual colonization, Thiong'o believes that words are seen as communication and culture.

In a television interview with Chinua Achebe by Bill Moyers, Achebe states himself as a writer between Igbo African and the Western European cultural tradition. Simon Gikandi is the one introduced by Chinua Achebe on his "Fall Fall Apart" in "Chinua Achebe and invention of African literature" which is an introduction article of our article "Fall Fall Apart" (ix - xvii) I will explain. Various ways to invent African literature. In 1958, Acehbe started adapting the Western literary tradition (realistic novels and tragedy genres etc) and settlers' English and to change it to fulfill the purpose of Africa.