Colonial Discourse Theory

Postcolonial theories
Postcolonial studies focus on the effects of the colonizer over the colonized people. Postcolonial term comes from the fact that this academic study studies what responses people had on a system of a government that controlled them and their land. To simplify this, while on the one hand post colonialism examines the social and political power that the colonizer uses over the colonized and the post implications of this colonial system on people. On the other hand, postcolonial studies have premises of the effects of the colonial rule on literature and feminism also.
The colonists want to control the natives. They want to culminate their history with these victories, to control more and more people and lands. The natives’

They crudely become an endemic system. What emerges from all this is a colonial discourse theory in which Edward Said asks for a deconstruction of this system.
Edward Said is the first person who thinks of colonial discourse theory and causes it to happen. He uses a contrapuntal reading to describe and reveal the colonized deep implications and their effects on people which may be hidden. It endorses, how the privileged life of the ruling class is established upon the benefits of applying this system on these colonized people. In Orientalism, he states:
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires.

Critics have viewed the work as Achebe’s answer to the limited and often inaccurate presentation of Nigerian life and customs found in literature written by powers of the colonial era. Achebe shows Igbo society with all its flaws as well as virtues.
Originally written in English and published in 1958, Things Fall Apart was one of the first novels by an African author to the western acclaim. Chinua Achebe wrote this book and claims that it documents Africa’s history – the civilized and rich life the Igbo lived before the arrival of Europeans who brought with them the social and cultural consequences. Achebe wrote this book as a sharp criticism of the European colonization of countries outside of the European continent especially Africa.
Moreover, reviewers have praised Achebe’s neutral narration. They concentrate on the socio-political aspects of the novel, including the friction between the members of Igbo society as they are confronted with the intrusive and overpowering presence of Western government and beliefs. So, why should you care? Why should you know how Africans lived in that