A View of Post Colonial Africa, Analysis of "Things Fall Apart" Achebe, versus "Out of Africa" Dinesen

A VIEW OF AFRICA
An analysis of the view of Africa from Ahebe’s “Things Fall Apart”
and Dinesen’s “Out of Africa.”



Africa in the mist of colonization became a land of great mysteries. A land that had marvelous landscapes and view from points so far up as if you were viewing the world from heavens. A land filled with lush foliage, and unlimited variety of animals, natural resources yet untouched from the hand of industrialization. Africa was wild country, or was it? Africa was simply a continent separated by the Mediterranean Sea from Europe. Up until the beginning of the twentieth century Africa was a continent inhabited by its natives, those that called Africa their home. They lived in tribes or communities and had their laws and traditions. They had hierarchies within the tribes and amongst them from village to village. Africa was ruled by nature, since the African natives lived and worked with the land and the animals that shared this country with them. ...