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Identity-politics refers to the way in which a specific section of a given society agitates for equal rights, increased recognition and greater opportunities based on the specific ethnic, religious, gender or other characteristic that simultaneously binds it together as a social group and sets it apart from other groups. This essay looks at the changing nature of identity-politics in the drama of the contemporary Nigerian dramatist Ahmed Yerima. It argues that the playwright traces crucial shifts in relationships that obtain between and within the individuals and social groups depicted in his plays as part of his overall concern with the nature of society.

Abstract Colonialism was system of oppression which postulated superiority over marginal cultures. Colonialism realigned multiple aspects of African social existence through its transcendental agency shored up with Western military and economic might. The first casualty of such colonialist classification is the belief system of the traditional African people and their religion, a representation of their indigenous gods that was redefined through the agency of language. Witchcraft is negatively reappropriated by the colonialist having the agency of power and language in an attempt to reduce African religious practices as a narrow reality of evil and harm without the possibility of such religious social practices having varied interpretation beyond this restricted imposition of meaning. Through the application of postcolonial theory, this paper observes that Witchcraft performs the function of social order in Things Fall Apart. This concept of social order is multidimensional and could be interrogated from such concepts as: political, economic, socio-religious structures of the indigenous African society within the world of the novel. It accounts for various meanings of witchcraft within the Igbo traditional society. This paper applies the concept of Ashcroft"s postcolonial theory and submits that; the dawn of colonialism disrupted traditional belief that has guided the African society as seen in Achebe"s Things Fall Apart. Résumé Le colonialisme était un système d'oppression qui postulait la supériorité contre les cultures marginalisées. Le colonialisme reliait de multiples aspects de l'existence sociale africaine grâce à son agence transcendantale étayée par la puissance militaire et économique occidentale. La première victime d'une telle classification colonialiste est le système traditionnel de croyance du peuple africain et sa religion, la représentation de leurs dieux indigènes qui a été redéfinie par l'action menée dans le domaine linguistique. La sorcellerie est représentée négativement par les colons ...