Effects of Colonialism

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This paper demonstrates the losses for the both the occupier and the occupied during the colonial era. It illustrates this through the literary works of Doris Lessing, Chinua Achebe and Albert Camus.

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"The colonial experience is very different for the colonists than it is for the colonized, generally corresponding to the oppressors and the oppressed respectively. Yet, as various literary works show, there is often loss on both sides of the equation, though the loss for the colonized is usually more readily apparent than the loss for the colonists. Today we can see many of the effects of the colonial era, with failed and failing governments in former colonies, with former colonial powers trying to make up for wrongs of the past and having to live with the turmoil their own actions created."

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