Colonialism

expansion of Europe and European values, creating a social, cultural, and physiological inferiority between colonizers and colonized

Post-Colonialism

The effect on colonies by Europe, as well as the methods of refusal or resisting of forced assimilation. It’s a struggle for a new identity or culture after the shifts made by colonization.

ambivalence

the mix in feelings, EU (Lesser but also exotic,) CO (enviable but corrupt/bad)

colonial education

how EU forced european views onto colonized youth + society

diaspora

Conflict between past culture and a new landscape

exoticism

When colonized people saw EU things as normal while their own things as exotic

hegemony

How the interest of the rich and powerful is convinced to be in the best interest of others

hybridity

The mix between two cultures or ideas

language

a space for resistance and culture, a symbol of colonialism as well

mimicry

when the colonized adopt EU things but change it or tweak it somehow

Orientalism

the exotic worldview that Europeans used for basically anthing West of them

“Other”

the marginalization of a group, their differences are often highlighted

race

divisions of groups of people based on physical and biological characteristics. Use as a pretext for enslavement and “saviorism/white man’s burden”

My dad and me, Chike’s school days

Chinua Achebe

The Martyr

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

A Far Cry from Africa

Derek Walcott

Back to My Own Country

Andrea Levy

That Polite Way that English People have

Andrea Levy

The Day they Burned the Books

Jean Rhys

The Courter

Salman Rushdie

Udo

Uncle from Chike

Isaiah

Uncle from Chike from Chinua Achebe

Eddie

Boy from the day they burned the books Jean Rhys