Ethnic Conflict and the Politics of Greed Rethinking Chimamanda Adichies

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" Ethnic Conflict and the Politics of Greed Rethinking Chimamanda Adichies "
Nick Mdika Tembo

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1076505
Doc. No	:	LA120134
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18757421-040001011‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Nick Mdika Tembo
Title & Author	:	Ethnic Conflict and the Politics of Greed Rethinking Chimamanda Adichies [Article]\ Nick Mdika Tembo
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Matatu
Date	:	2012
Volume/ Issue Number	:	40/1
Page No	:	173–189
Abstract	:	The African continent today is laced with some of the most intractable conflicts, most of them based on ethnic nationalism. More often than not, this has led to poor governance, unequal distribution of resources, state collapse, high attrition of human resources, economic decline, and inter-ethnic clashes. This essay seeks to examine Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's through the lens of ethnic conflict. It begins by tracing the history and manifestations of ethnic stereotypes and ethnic cleavage in African imaginaries. The essay then argues that group loyalty in Nigeria led to the creation of 'biafranization' or 'fear of the Igbo factor' in the Hausa–Fulani and the various other ethnic groups that sympathized with them; a fear that crystallized into a thirty-month state-sponsored bulwark campaign aimed at finding a 'final solution' to a 'problem population'. Finally, the essay contends that Adichie's anatomizes the impact of ethnic cleavage on the civilian Igbo population during the Nigeria–Biafra civil war. Adichie, I argue, participates in an ongoing re-invention of how Africans can extinguish the psychology of fear that they are endangered species when they live side by side with people who do not belong to their 'tribe'.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Comparative Studies World Literature
Descriptor	:	Criticism Theory
Descriptor	:	Cultural History
Descriptor	:	Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	Literature and Cultural Studies
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial Literature Culture
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18757421-040001011‬