Title: IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGINS AND THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTER OF IGWEBUIKE IN AFRICAN LITERATURE: AN APPROCH TO CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART AND ARROW OF GOD
Authors: Waïbèna DEB’MANA and Damlègue Lare Togo
Abstract:

Based on Igwebuike theory under the control of African humanism by D. A. MASOLO (2020), this article investigates in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God the origins and the essential character of Igwebuike. The analysis in the corpus under study comes with the result that Igwebuike is an Igbo world view which stipulates that together we are strong in diversity as claims the African humanism. Based on this African origins and its authentic claims, the article believes that its implementation for ecological studies in African fiction can come out with efficient results to attenuate the ecological crisis.

Keywords: African humanism, Igwebuike, ecology, complementarity, interconnection, African.     
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59009/ijlllc.2025.0160

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