Education

Education was very important to Chike. Hence the title, "Chike's School Days." Although he struggled learning literature, there was no doubt he was never going to give up. “He liked particularly the sound of English Words, even when they conveyed no meaning at all.” (830) By conveying no meaning at all, we mean that Chike didn't understand the meaning of half the words he was saying, but he still tried to learn the education system. The British education system that was. This idolization of Western culture that Chike is battling is a representation of a larger issue of Post Colonialism. It imposes a sort of front or this show that the Western ideas and culture have a false general belief of superiority. We see this in a lot of third-world countries especially in one of a lower population, run-down country like Western Nigeria. The interesting connotation with this is that Chike is forced to grow up in this multi-cultural environment, and he himself is multi-cultural with the marriage of his parents and being from one class and looked at as something different. We can see the conflict this has on Chike as he works to find his true identity through English and literature.