Colonizers’ Violence: A Postcolonial Study of Novel “Onitsha”

Abstract

This thesis entitled ''Colonizers Violence: A Postcolonial Study of the Novel Onitsha'' is an attempt of the researcher to find out the social, cultural as well as religious violence created by colonizers in the novel Onitsha from postcolonial perspective. To meet the objective of research, the researcher studied and analyzed the novel by using the qualitative research design for which the researcher used checklist method to collect required information. The study shows the cultural, social and religious violence created by colonizers in the novel, Onitsha. The main colonizers' agents of the novel are Geoffroy Allen, Maou, their son Fintan as well as Sabine Rodes are agents of colonizers who involved themselves in violation of cultural, social and religious values of Africa. The British colonizers destroy the shrine of god Aro Chuku and question the cultural structure of Onitsha city. Enslavement of Oya (goddess as well as African girl) killing of Ugo (god) and the destruction of termite nest (god) are the proofs of colonial violence. The present study is divided into five main chapters and other sub-chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction. It consists of general background, statement of the problem, objectives, research questions, significance and delimitation of the study. The second chapter deals with the review of related literature and conceptual framework. It consists of review of theoretical literature, review of imperial literature, implication of the review of the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter is related to the methods and procedures of the study which includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling procedure, areas of the study, data/information collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures. Similarly the fourth chapter consists of result and discussion. The last chapter includes summary, conclusion and implication. This chapter is followed by references and appendix.