(University of Namibia, 2017) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
This essay examines the question of hybridity in Chinua Achebe’s
fiction and essays with a view to bringing to fore the inherent
contradictions, ambiguities and ambivalences that typify writing
in the colonial language. It hinges on the premise that Achebe’s
choice of English as a language of literary expression is fraught
with rejection and acceptance, aporia and agony, and Anglophilia
and Anglophobia. Therefore, in his articulation and projection of
the postcolonial narrative, Achebe implicitly grapples with the
issue of identity in trying to make sense of his world as well as
the world of his fictional characters.