The impact of the white man in the destruction of the people of Ndotcheeni

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 .