Importance of Song

"Once there was a wizard. He lived in Africa. He went to China to get a lamp."

At the end of the novel, it explains how Chike kept repeating this line, eventually turning it into a song of his own. I believe there to be a lot of significance here that adheres to the overall message because throughout the novel we have this battle for identity, so by Chike turning this new vocabulary into a song signifies the importance he has in connecting different cultures by a means of language. Chike kind of uses it as an escape from reality into like a dream world sort of sense. We can tell this by the quote at the end of the book, “It was like a window through which he saw in the distance a strange, magical new world.” (830)