Available evidence has shown that pre-colonial African societies had a formal and organized system of government before the advent of colonialism. However, there seem to be an intellectual conspiracy against the minor ethnic groups as most of the contemporary literature has focused on the three major ethnic groups-Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and the Igbo political systems. In order to save these minor...

In his highly influential work Culture and Imperialism , Edward Said unravels the imperialist undertones in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park . Throughout chapter entitled “Jane Austen Empire,” demonstrates how this seemingly domestic novel of manners, not normally associated with imperialism, is actually densely saturated colonialist discourse. For Said, marginalized representation colonized territ...

Post-colonialism is a useful tool for educating the West about need of not undermining any culture because racial differences. The post-colonial discourse criteria appropriation, abrogation, untranslated terms, hybridity, and affiliation served as foundation this study’s text criticism. Since fundamental theme Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s writings in Purple Hibiscus, it implies that African peopl...

this paper contends that there has been a definitive and negative change in the trajectory of so-called islamic feminism. this change has been effected in large part in the west , as part of the growing discourse of euro-islam, european islam, indigenization of islam, etc., a discourse that comes not from governments (though it is mirrored, applauded and rewarded by governments in the region) b...

European civic integration programmes claim to provide newcomers with necessary tools for successful participation. Simultaneously, these have been criticised being restrictive, market-driven and working towards an implicit goal of limiting migration. Authors questioned how discursively construct offensive image the Other colonial histories are reproduced in constructions seen today. The Dutch ...