The metaphor of the feast of the new yam: A case study of chinua achebe’s things fall apart and arrow of god
International Journal of Development Research
The metaphor of the feast of the new yam: A case study of chinua achebe’s things fall apart and arrow of god
Received 19th September, 2017; Received in revised form 08th October, 2017; Accepted 20th November, 2017; Published online 30th December, 2017
Copyright © 2017, Amoi Evrard. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The feast of the new yam is the most important feast of the Igbo world. It is solemnized after the cleansing ceremonies. The pantheon of feasts is like the one of divinities. There is a big feast and secondary ones. The end of small feasts symbolizes the start of the feast of the new yam. In Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, divinities, spirits, the dead and the living are around during the feast. They play significant parts in the different rituals of the feast. The ritual of yam is performed to meet cultural and political needs.
