Category: Essays and Critical Analyses

A Call to Arms; the Impact of Colonialism on Nigerian Society Through Teju Cole’s Eyes

A Call to Arms; the Impact of Colonialism on Nigerian Society Through Teju Cole’s Eyes

If only Charlotte from A Book of Common Prayer had spent time in Lagos instead of Boca Grande. I think that she would have found it more truly “A land of contrasts” (Dideon 13). This is because of the exceptional portrait that Teju Cole paints of Nigeria, specifically Lagos, in his novel Every Day is …

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