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Item Cleft Identities in Japin’s The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi(Department of English, 2011) Ojha, ArjunThis research concludes that the identities of the two Ashanti princes Kwasi Boachi and Kwame Poku have been lost due to intercultural mixing. African and European culture is incompatible so that to retrieve the cultural loss the princes cultivate into deep memory or nostalgia which is only the source of compensation of loss. Slowly and gradually the African princes start to mimic what the Hollanders do. As a result hybrid identity of the immigrant is formulated. On the other side due to long gap of connection to Kumasi, the princes have forgotten their Twi tone. This research establishes the formation of hybrid identity, nostalgia or memory and amnesia as the major causes to make the identities cleft. This research also concludes that European society or white superior mentality and racial prejudices are the causes to formulate the cleft identities of the princes.Item A Critique of Empire in Le Clezio'sOnitsha(Central Departmental of English, 2010) Joshi, RajendraPrashadOnitshais a literary documentation of disintegrating British Empire that focuses on the oppressive ways of white colonizers over native blacks in West Africa, and the resistance of native Africans as a natural or inborn instinct of human being to live a free andindependent life. In one of the incidents of the novel, Black convicts can not tolerate the brutal and most inhuman treatment of the white Masters and revolt against them. The uprising that begins among the small group of Black convicts in Gerald Simpson'sproperty spreads as a wild fire throughout West Africa in no time. It burns down the great castles of British Empire by making native Africans free from colonial chains. The novel equally focuses upon the historical, mythological and cultural aspect of colonization. It expresses its sympathy over the great West African indigenous cultures that get lost when they come in contact with so called superior European culture.