Context Flashcards
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Context
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- Published in 2003, almost 20 years after the 1986 coup (set in 1980s)
- Violent, abusive household is a microcosm of Nigerian political reality
- The country is divided between the Islamic North and Christian south
- Religious identity is so powerful because of the conficted national identity
2
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Aunty Ifeoma quote
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‘There are people, she once wrote, who think that we
cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.’
