In Emecheta's Joys of Motherhood, Ngugi's Weep Not, Child and Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, the authors describe how colonialism challenged and eroded Africa's traditional morals and values. ... Only after her son's birth does Nnu Ego begin to feel like a "real woman" (Emecheta 54). ... With both sons pursuing further education abroad, Nnu Ego never receives the comfort she expected them to provide. ... In the Rhodesian culture, a son is more valuable to a family because he remains as a family member until death. The son is responsible for caring for his ...

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Black clergymen were described with whites as "ignorant but cunning men who taught the most outrageous antinomian principles, subversive of all morals and ruinous to all correct notions of God and duty".7 Though the content of these black preachers" sermons is largely undocumented due to the reticence of the slaves in front of whites, the spirituals and slave accounts of lively and joyous worship and celebration have been documented in personal slave accounts. ... Dark and dismal is the cloud that hangs over thee; for thy cruel wrongs and injuries to the fallen sons of Africa. ... Levine&#x...

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A widely debated norm that has questioned our morals is cannibalism or anthropophagy. ... For instance, "I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh- (Cannibalism 1). ... Also, there was an essential belief held by some (like the Liverpool River natives) that through eating a dead relative or enemy who had a unique and desirable quality (great wisdom or clever hunter), the consumers would gain their attributes; "If they killed a fast runner, they ate part of his legs, hoping thereby to acquire his speed- (Here be Cannibals 2). ...

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