미완의 탈식민화와 침묵당한 역사

Unfinished Decolonization and Silenced History: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist who receives attention in America. This paper examines her second novel, Half of Yellow Sun, which portrays the miserable realities in the neo-colonial era of Nigeria. Representing various characters and events in the novel, Adichie shows clearly that these realities are caused by the failure of achieving the full decolonization that Frantz Fanon and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o have asserted strongly since African independence. This can be confirmed in that she raises the point about the remaining colonial legacies in the political and economic system, the psychological colonization inherent in people's mind, and the corruption and degradation in the ruling-class and national bourgeoisie who have replicated the views and practices of Western colonial regime. Therefore, this paper puts a high valuation on her novel as sharing Fanon and Ngũgĩ's decolonizing ideas, and urging her readers and Nigerian people to understand the reasons why these realties happen from the viewpoint of the Third World, in order to prevent Africa's other tragedies and reach its full decolonization in Africa.