drillvoice 's review for:

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

5.0

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I really love this series but I haven't been sure why. But I think I get it now - the books give such a great representation of how Colonialism might have played out and affected the traditional lives. But it does this without being heavy-handed or obvious. I really like this book because it isn't about a transition from 'before' to 'when it began' (as with the first in the series) or something immersed in the white system (as with the second). Instead it shows a clan existing outside of but in constant interaction with the white man - and you can see the interplay, the mutual bewilderment and misunderstanding, underpinned, of course, by the smug colonial superiority of the white person.

I also really love all the proverbs.