The Big Man Of Africa Analysis

President who was the ruler of Africa and everywhere his reflections only could be seen. ‘The Big Man’, the third chapter an echo of political dominations and the President’s authority. The word ‘Big’ could be the result of the President’s towering personality as he was the Big Man, a powerful man in Africa. The political status was also had the high impact. The fourth chapter was ‘Battle’; it was explosion of the people to bring back their old ways and the fighting against the European cultures. It was also the battle of every people who struggled to get their need and rights.
As the people were dissatisfied with the new fallacies, there were no genuine developments and advantages among the people’s mind as they only got the outward

Many false gods have come to this land, but none have been as false as the gods of today. The cult of the woman of Africa kills our mothers, and since the war is an extension of politics we have decided to face the ENEMY with armed confrontation. Otherwise we all die forever. The ancestors are shrieking. If we are not deaf we can hear them. By ENEMY we mean the powers of imperialism, the multinationals and the puppet powers that be, the false gods, the capitalists, the priests and teachers who give false interpretations. The law encourages crime. The schools teach ignorance and people practice ignorance in preference to their true culture. Our soldiers and guardians have been given false desires and false greeds and the foreigners now qualify us everywhere as thieves”

Even at the beginning of the novel, it opened with an assessment of failure as the likeliest outcome for those who were unable, Nietzschean terms, to forge their destiny by the hammer of their will: “THE WORLD IS what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.” (3) It was a note that would be gloomily struck again in the story as an assertion of the meaninglessness of man’s efforts to change his position in the world. Salim, who was the devotee of individualism as he came out from his family, intended to reject his people’s timeless fatalism and pursue individual achievement