Abstract:
This study aimed at investigating the impacts of the colonialism (white
man) on the people of Ndotcheni and how this impact has led to the destruction of
the mentioned district. The study assumed that the colonization has great
destructive effects on the people of Ndotcheni and it extended to include language
and religion. The study is considered significant because it reflects the effects of
colonization on the district. The study has set a number of questions concerning
the problem under the study. The study has adopted a qualitative method and has
used the content analysis as a tool for data collection. And after analyzing the
content of the novel, study has come up with the following findings: It confirmed
that there are real impacts of colonization on the people of Ndotcheni, the black
people are not able to cope in society which is not their own. This change in
society is given a name, ‘the broken tribe’ which becomes a title for a
phenomenon called ‘detribalization’ by anthropologists. It describes the breaking
away of the traditional way of life, along with its customs and hierarchical
Structures, after the white colonizers came and forced their society onto the
peoples who lived in their colonies. In Paton’s novel this mainly becomes a
problem when black people leave their African communities to go to the white
man’s cities. and psychological impact is represented by the pain and suffering,
more and more as they(black people) learn of their brother's loss of faith in the
church, and the crimes their sons have committed in addition to poverty which
was common among the blacks concentrates in economical impact .
