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Item Cultural Hybridity in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus(Faculty of English, 2013) Kafle, RukmagatPurple Hibiscusdis covers the breakdown of the family authenticity with cultural hybridity under the influence of Christian religion in postcolonial Nigeria.It further exposes the two cultural extremes of traditional Igbo culture and of Western Christian culture in the post independent scene of the 1990s.For example, Papa Nnukwu celebrates Igbo tradition,while Eugene follows Christiantenetblindly. The novel criticizes the Eurocentric and exclusive Catholicism of previous generations,and demands respect for Igbo spirituality. No attempt is made to recover traditional religion in everyday life or to acculturate Catholicism in religious practices that are never essential to the majority of people.Kambili and Jaja, the main characters, are in repression by the irown father in their home due to the religious dispute.The other characters like Ifoma,father Amadi,Kambili and Jajaadmire own Igboculture while acceptingit with Christian culture.They together strengthen their culture and find their identity infusion. Purple Hibiscusis a complex tale of Kambili, a young girl growing up in Nigeria, in between the old“pagan”ways and her Catholic upbringing. Her life is structured and ruled by her strict Catholic father.However,a trip to visit her Auntie in another town shows her another way of living. Kambili has trouble accepting this alternative lifestyle and feels torn between the two. With the help of her brother, auntie, cousins, and a priest, she begins to see other ways of thinking and acting than her father expects.Item Excremental Postcolonialism in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah(Department of English, 2010) Rana Magar, Narad KumarThe novel Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe,deals with the evils of the post-colonial social and political in contengencies in the context of Nigerian society. The Nigerian society and their native culture and tradition were exploited, spoiled and fragmented by the colonizers during the colonial period.Due to the invasion of colonialism the purity of Nigerian culture and tradition is lost even in the postcolonial period. The degradation in the culture, society, politics, history and economical factors in the Post-colonial Nigeria causing the country face the existential crisis is basically due to the evils of the colonial mission. Achebe as a post- colonial writer explores the consequences of the European colonialism presenting how not only the Nigerian culture and politics but also by showing how the Nigerian people are also exploited and because of which how they themselves involve in the war between and among themselves. This is done by Achebe through his Anthills of the Savannah.