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Lobola in South Africa: When Things Fall Apart

September 23, 2014 / Uncategorized / chinua achebe, culture south africa, lobola, things fall apart, Zulu tradition

chinua achebe, culture south africa, lobola, things fall apart, Zulu tradition

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is widely acclaimed for its vivid capitulation of the crisis of African society finding itself in transition—that moment where change has become inevitable, but uncertainty remains on how it will happen. That decisive moment of change in the story happens when Okwonkwo returns to his home village, after being banished to […]

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What is the Price of Freedom?

The price of the freedom we have had as a country since 1994 is disappointment, even disappointment with ourselves: that we have not done as good a job as we expected compared to our former oppressor. In some instances challenges and problems have arisen just when we thought we had arrived, problems which seem like