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IMAGES OF A NATIVE SON REVIEW

The generations of Africans who inhabited the area now called Nigeria were instinctively hostile & suspicious of the colonialists. They were pre-Governor Lugard & amalgamation among whom could have been Achebe's character Okonkwo & Njokundudu, Raymond Njoku's father.(It might be interesting to speculate how these people would have evolved without the trauma of colonial rupture)

However, their children embraced the colonial culture, receiving education & indeed becoming christians. Images of a Native Son depicts the process of acculturation exemplified by Raymond Njoku & family.By the late 1940s/'50s they had taken what they thought they needed from the colonisers such that when the nationalists began, in earnest, the movement for self-rule & independence they were ready.

Images of a Native Son represents the sweep of history in personal terms: hostility to colonisation, adaptation & acquiescience to it, and engineering its overthrow on 1st October 1960. This was achieved in the Nigerian context mainly by the use of English language- in the constitutional conferences aided by the burgeonong anti-colonial world view- instead of a resort to arms.

The memoir ends when Charles leaves for the United Kingdom shortly after independence; but the forces, reflexes & preoccupation unleashed by the 1st Oct 1960 event could not be husbanded so that by 1967 a civil war was precipitated. The fledgeling democratic experiment was frail having failed to take root. Charles Njoku's memoir succeeds as a seminal literary work which illuminates a significant episode of Nigeria's socio-political history.

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