Below are some questions we'll discuss in class. Find specific examples to discuss. Overall question: how does the novel's representations of these issues compare to the articles' representations? (To help you think about your paper.)

The women

• How would you characterize African (Nigerian) village women's role and status? What were they?
• What kinds of differentiations existed among women? How did these affect female-female relationships?
• How did women exercise power and autonomy?

• How would you characterize the gender system a portrayed in the novel?
• How would you characterize men's and women's attitudes about each other?
• What were the differences in how women and men related to the colonizer? Why were the differences? Why were there differences?

• What were European attitudes towards Africans? Was there a difference between white women and white men in their attitudes toward Africans?
• What were the sources and causes of the problems Europeans experienced in governing?
• What were the sources of British power?
• Why were the women so distrustful of the British?

• How did the cultures clash?
• How did they influence each other? (Did they influence each other?)