...Saving Mr Ugwu is a short story written by Lin Anderson. The story takes place in Nigeria which is a country in Africa. The capital of Nigeria is Lagos and the Ugwu family lived there, but they moved to a more uncivilized part of Nigeria the bush because Mr Ugwu got a job there. Mr Ugwu is native though he identifies himself with Western men. He comes from the civilized part of Nigeria. He is well educated. He went to the British school in Lagos and travelled to London after his graduation and stayed there for a year and he is an accountant and it pays well. He accepts the new job even though his wife does not want him to take is “You are not a bushman, she said” but Mr. Ugwu feels he need to accept the job because he feels he has a responsibility towards the company because it is good to him and his family “When the company tells him to go somewhere, he is not in a position to argue”. He likes mentioning he has expensive things like his spacious Lagos bungalow and his crisped white European cotton shirt which emphasizes he is a civilized man. He also has a condescending attitude towards other natives” He is resented, oh not by the Baturi!... He gets on well with Europeans…. No, he sighs, it is the Hausa who resent him” even though he is native himself. The lack of thought and focus on materialism and him being a civilized man make him appear superficial. Mrs Ugwu represents the urbanized native bourgeoisie. She did not want to leave Lagos and she does not like the new place...
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...Lin Anderson Saving Mr Ugwu Mr Ugwu crosses to the window, thinking he hears a drop of rain against the louvred glass[1]. For the past three weeks Mr Ugwu has been waiting for rain. He waits for rain as you or I wait for a knock at the door; for the telephone to ring; listening. But unlike these things, the rain is definitely coming. Mr Ugwu knows it is merely a question of time. But this morning, when he scans the horizon, the blue sky looks emptily back at him, although, he thinks, sniffing the air, surely there is a smell of moisture? Round the single-storey mud bungalow, his wife’s garden has been plucked, fighting and kicking, from the African bush. Plants and shrubs, forced into blood-red soil and given their twice-daily watering, have responded in a riot of colour against the thorny grey backdrop ... a veritable oasis in the wilderness. Through the window, Mr Ugwu sees Isa their gardener has arrived and is already padding barefoot round each scored-out waterhole that circles his wife’s plants, dragging the hose behind him. It is this, he realises with disappointment, that has brought the longed-for scent of moisture to his nostrils. Mr Ugwu sighs a little as he leaves the window and crosses to the wardrobe, the garden having reminded him again of what he has done to his wife. Mrs Ugwu did not want her husband to take this job. It was in the middle of nowhere, she said. You are not a bushman, she said. Mrs Ugwu had wielded that particular word like a machete...
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...Saving Mr. Ugwu Ethnic disparity has caused innumerable conflicts, and are to be seen everywhere. Even today, ethnic minorities are being oppressed and discriminated against their deviant skin color and behavioral norms and traditions. In fact, the conflicts are not necessarily between a nation and its immigrants, but might as well be rooted in old enmity between ethnical groupings living on the same territory. This kind of hatred is the underlying idea behind Lin Anderson’s short story Saving Mr. Ugwu written in 2012. The short story begins in medias res as the reader is thrown into Mr Ugwu’s new bungalow which lies in the land of Hausa or in the bush (l. 34) as Mrs Ugwu describes the place. Mr Uwgu feels loyal and grateful to the company he works for, which is why he is willing to leave his beloved, affluent Ibo-home in Lagos, which is very regrettable for his wife. Due to the historical facts, the two ethnic groups, Ibo and Hausa, are old enemies, as they have combated each other during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). Mrs Ugwu abhors the Hausa-people and misses Lagos. Lagos is, with a population of 21 million, the new biggest city in Africa, and a result of the African urbanization which probably has made the family’s wealth possible. Lagos is the center of Nigeria’s economy and has many millionaires, but, like many other big cities, two thirds of Lagos’ population are slum dwellers: “The boy’s eyes are half shut as he wipes the table, sweeping the marauding ants...
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...Analytical essay – “Saving Mr Ugwu” In historical context, Africa has always been a great market for slavery, and especially western countries like France and Great Britain have exploited that in the past through their colonization of the continent. Although it might be popular thinking that slavery organized by western countries has been abolished many decades ago, it is not necessarily true. Modern slavery in Africa has just had a slight change in character since then. This short story deals with the white man’s continuous oppression and exploitation of black people and their labour force. Furthermore the text thematizes deeply rooted historical conflicts between whites and different black ethnicities within Nigeria. The short story”Saving Mr Ugwu” is written by the Scottish author Lin Anderson. The story takes place in Nigeria, a former British colony, and mostly focuses around Mr. Ugwu and his family who was forced to move from Lagos to the Nigerian Bush because of his job. Mr. Ugwu is an Ibo and is born in the former capital of Nigeria, Lagos. Ugwu works for a big western sugarcane company, and manages the pay checks of the workers who harvest the sugarcanes. These workers mostly belong to another ethnic group, the Hausa. The text gives us the impression that some sort of hierarchy exist amongst the different Nigerian ethnicities and the few white men who live in the bush. “Mr Ugwu thinks once again, how lazy and dirty these Hausa people are”(S2, L59) This hierarchy...
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...Saving Mr Ugwu The short story „Saving Mr. Ugwu“ is written by Lin Anderson in 2012. The main character is Mr. Ugwu, a black man, but he feels like he is a white western man. The main plot is about him and the changes in his life. The story deals with equality and different cultures. Mr. Ugwu is the main character and the story is from a third person narrator, with focus on Mr. Ugwu. He is a black guy, but he feels as a white man. He and his family live in the bush in Nigeria. He belongs to the Christian Igbos, this one of the biggest tribes in Nigeria. His family moved from the biggest city Lagos, what also was the capital in Nigeria until 1991, to the bush in Nigeria, because of Mr. Ugwu’s job. Mr. Ugwu doesn’t think well about the bush, but he reminds himself every time that the company has been good to him, so he would do whatever it takes to keep his job. He doesn’t feels that the bush is his home, and he wants to go back to Lagos. Every time it rains he feels a bit like he is “home”, he probably thinks about Lagos. Mr. Ugwu is not really happy with his life, “he becomes angry. Angry at the Hausa, angry at his wife, angry at his Baturi neighbour, all of whom treat him like a dog.” In this quote from the text can you see that Mr. Ugwu isn’t really happy with his life, although he have a good position in his job, and earned good money even though that he wasn’t white. An important thing in the story is the setting, specially the garden at the Ugwu family’s house. In the...
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...Saving Mr. Ugwu Saving Mr. Ugwu is a novel written by Lin Anderson in 2012. The novel tells us about Mr. Ugwu’s life, his job and his family. The story takes place in the African country, Nigeria. The novel presents us to concerns such as individual rights between ethnicities, and contains themes such as imperialism, racial division and human rights. Mr. Ugwu is from Lagos and is from the igbo race, which is one of the more occurring tribes in Nigeria. Mr. Ugwu and his family have been through some hectic changes recently, because of Mr. Ugwu’s job. They have been forced to move into the bush against their will. He keeps telling himself that “The company has been good to him” He does that to remind himself that although the changes, he has to be thankful that he has a job, that he has an income and the fact that him and his family can live an exclusive life not many from his tribe can. Mr. Ugwu seems to be a man who always has worked hard for his money, but it also seems that he is a man who is privileged in many ways. Mr. Ugwu has a gardener that takes care of his wife’s flowers, and a houseboy that does several tasks in the house such as cooking him breakfast. “The kitchen boy has made him hot sweet tea and sliced bread” …”His master’s breakfast” – This quote says a lot about how the social structure is in Nigeria, there is a clear hierarchy which makes it irrelevant whether you are a Hausa, or an Igbo. However his wife still tries to remind him several times in an attempt...
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...Essay A “Saving Mr. Ugwu” is a novel written by Lin Anderson in 2012. Lin Anderson is a crime novelist and screenwriter and is of Scottish origins. The novel takes place in the African country, Nigeria, and is about Mr. Ugwu and his life. Mr. Ugwu is a workingman, who lives with his family. Because of his job, he is been forced to move from their nice neighborhood and surroundings in Lagos into the wilderness in the African bushes. His wife does not like living in the bushes and Mr. Ugwu quickly realizes that it is not fair to bring his family out into this uncivilized way of living, but Mr. Ugwu keeps reminding himself that his company has been very good to him, so he does not feel like he is in the position to argue and he therefore stays with his family in the bushes. Mr. Ugwu seems like a man who is always conscientious towards his job, and one day, he gets the task to hand out the paychecks to the rest of the black employers. Since the white men does not think that the black workers did their job well enough, they give them a much smaller amount of money than usual, which results in the employers being very unsatisfied and upset with Mr. Ugwu. They end up going to Mr. Ugwu’s house to protest, because it was him, who handed out the envelopes. At last, the protest stops and Mr. Ugwu and his family moves back to Lagos. Mr. Ugwu was born in Lagos and is an Igbo (a tripe in Nigeria). He is the main character in the story and has a wife and very gifted children, who has a...
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...forklare. EX. Forkert brug af pronominer…. Bla bla bla |Besvarelse 1a: | |1. |Mrs Ugwu is not happy in the small town and would had preferred to stay in the capital Lagos where the | | |family used to live. | |Forklaring: | | | |Forklaring: | | |I den forkerte sætning står verballedet i førdatid (pluskvamperfektum) - der kan ikke være førdatid i en | | |nutidssætningen. Verballedet skal stå i førnutid, da sætningen står i nutid. Man danner førnutid på | | |engelsk ved at have en nutidsbøjning af ’to have’ efterfulgt af en kort tillægsform. | | |Den rettede sætning: | | |Mrs Ugwu is not happy in the small town and would have preferred to stay in the capital Lagos where the | | |family used to live. ...
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...ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, CARITAS UNIVERSITY, AMORJI-NIKE, ENUGU, ENUGU STATE. AUGUST 2012 2 CERTIFICATION This is to certify that Nkwagu Oluchi Winifired with Registratoin Number PA/2008/182 has successfully carried out a research work on “Fuel Subsidy Removal and the Nigerian Economy (A case Study of Abakaliki Local government Area, Ebonyi State.) in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Bachelor of science (B.Sc.) degree in Public Administration ---------------------------------Mr. M. O. Ugada (Project Supervisor) -------------------------Date --------------------------------Mr. M. O. Ugada (HOD Public Adminstration) ---------------------------Date -------------------------------External Examiner ---------------------------Date 3 DEDICATION This research work is dedicated to God Almighty and to my parents Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Nkwagu who chose my education and academic carrier as of paramount importance to them. 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In line with the saying the proverb “A tree cannot make a forest”, it will be an exercise in self deception to live under the illusion that this work could have seen the...
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...onaryDictionary of Ònìchà Igbo 2nd edition of the Igbo dictionary, Kay Williamson, Ethiope Press, 1972. Kay Williamson (†) This version prepared and edited by Roger Blench Roger Blench Mallam Dendo 8, Guest Road Cambridge CB1 2AL United Kingdom Voice/ Fax. 0044-(0)1223-560687 Mobile worldwide (00-44)-(0)7967-696804 E-mail R.Blench@odi.org.uk http://www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm To whom all correspondence should be addressed. This printout: November 16, 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations: ................................................................................................................................................. 2 Editor’s Preface............................................................................................................................................... 1 Editor’s note: The Echeruo (1997) and Igwe (1999) Igbo dictionaries ...................................................... 2 INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................................... 4 1. Earlier lexicographical work on Igbo........................................................................................................ 4 2. The development of the present work ....................................................................................................... 6 3. Onitsha Igbo ...................................................................................................
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