, 1992). This idea of double-consciousness comes through in almost any African American work of literature. Double-consciousness has a direct negative affect on identity of African American people. It is the exact reason why the African American people have a hard time understanding who they are, because they have unarguable ties to two totally separate cultures. Dubois explains this perfectly when he stated: "One ever feels his two-ness, -am American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strengths alone keeps it from being torn asunder." (Dubois 3). What Dubois is saying is that having both identities to have to connect with and understand is a very hard task that African Americans have to deal with, maybe even the hardest. This idea of double consciousness is a mirror image of the strife that African Americans have been through. African Americans have the task of taking the two selves, the African and American, and combining this person into one. This forces Africans to lose a little of themselves, but also to gain a little of something equally good. This is why identity is questioned so much because this convergence is very hard to accomplish. .
African Americans are faced with the challenge of identifying themselves with not only their African home land and traditions but also with their American upbringing (Ndi and Ndeh 2013). This ultimate challenge is highlighted in Dubois' novel "The Souls of Black Folks" in which he shows that there is not one but two souls that each African American has inside of him. This not only is true to African Americans but is true to all post-colonial indigenous people whose lives were negatively impacted by contact with Europeans. Like African Americans, these natives search for identity and live with double-consciousness throughout their lives. They too are forced to accept this theory that they have two souls they must intermingle, or they have to try and re conjure their old culture that is somewhere lost between now and the original contact with the Europeans.
