Blog Post #20 - "Interview With Chinua Achebe" Discussion
1) What was the most meaningful takeaway from today’s discussion relating to the cultural or literary context of Achebe’s work? In the class regarding the cultural or literary context of Achebe’s work, we looked at Achebe’s interview which was completed on the 2nd August 2000. Throughout the interview, I was taken away by the way peoples mind-set differently portrays a specific country or race, before the modern today, creating stereotypes. One example is how people focus on small negative parts of Africa to therefore create a stereotype against the whole country. This makes Africans feel as if they are outsiders or even unwanted whilst it stops them from sharing their culture and power from the world, but when people mention a large powerful country like the United States , they are talked about with respect and positivity compared to the negativity shown towards Africa and Africans through images of success, power, energy and politics. To people exposed to this stereotypin...