Thanks
for the question!
It is easy to argue that miscommunication led to some of
the conflicts between the citizens of Umuofia and the British colonizers in s novel
. The primary source of these miscommunications is the vast cultural
division between the British and the Igbo villagers and a lack of mutual understanding regarding
the social and political norms of each group.
One humorous example of
miscommunication is the translation errors of the missionaries as they adapt to the vast number
of Igbo dialects. For example, in , an Ibo missionary attempts to explain the impact of the
arriving British for the people of Mbanta:
When they
gathered, the white man began to speak to them. He spoke through an...
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