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Achebe, Chinua. "Dead men’s path." 2006 Cross-Cultural Encounters. 20th Century English Short Stories. Stuttgart: Reclam (1953): 155-160. The articles expresses view on modern cultures and supports the idea by Achebe theme on Africa being at crossroad of cultural identity. The assimilation of western way of life has impacted heavily on the current generation. The older generation still has cultural knowledge but is slowly fading away with the changing population structure. The author argues, “One problem that have been observed across all cultures in Africa is their decline” (pp. 158) and the mentality of tye younger generation looking at the western culture as superior.
Nnolim, Charles. "Achebe As A Social Critic." Eagle on Iroko: Selected Papers from the Chinua Achebe International Symposium 1990. 1996.The articles explain Achebe as a genius in literacy work and as the eye of Africa on social and cultural realms. He was able to see how cultures interacted and changing trends and wrote such issues with mastery content”. The author recognizes Achebe Dead men’s Path as illustration of Africa being at the crossroad when it comes to cultural and social issues.
“We are stuck between the western way of living and our system.” (Charles, pp, 9). Hallet, Wolfgang. "The Multimodality of Cultural Knowledge and Its Literary Transformations.”." La conoscenza della letteratura. The Knowledge of Literature (2008): 173-193. Cultural knowledge forms the basis of our way of life. Some of this knowledge, according to the Wolfgang is entrenched in literature. “Chinua, with his illustrious career in literature was able to put cultural issues with extreme accuracy” (pp, 179).
Africa always found itself in the middle of western culture and the way of life as practiced in Africa. In most of the cultures, wolfgang, argues, we have mixed cultural issues with African culture fading in the hands of western culture. Work citedHallet, Wolfgang. "The Multimodality of Cultural Knowledge and Its Literary Transformations.”." La conoscenza della letteratura. The Knowledge of Literature (2008): 173-193.Hallet, Wolfgang. "The Multimodality of Cultural Knowledge and Its Literary Transformations.”." La conoscenza della letteratura.
The Knowledge of Literature (2008): 173-193.Achebe, Chinua. "Dead men’s path." 2006): Cross-Cultural Encounters. 20th Century English Short Stories. Stuttgart: Reclam (1953): 155-160.Nnolim, Charles. "Achebe As A Social Critic." Eagle on Iroko: Selected Papers from the Chinua Achebe International Symposium 1990. 1996.Schlaeger, Jürgen. Selves for the Twenty-First Century. na, 2006.Egudu, Romanus. "CHINUA ACHEBE’S COUNSELLING CREATIVITY."
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