Cultural Hybridity and Individual’s Ambivalence in Chinua Achebe’s Things FallApartand Ngugiwa Thiong’o’s The river between

Abstract

This research paper which is entitled Cultural Hybridity and Individual Ambivalence in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s The River Between aims at exploring the way colonialism is imposing newness, transitions and changes on the Africannations. Hence, in this subject matter, we tackle the issue of colonialism in the African societies, as the case of the Igbo and the Gikuyu nations, in making people live in the cultural interstices because of being introduced to the colonizer’s way of life. The difference and therepulsion between the colonizer and the colonized in fact create a third space, which makes them confront each other in a meeting bridge