![]() ![]() The presence of Lakunle represents the British Colonial Government forcing their culture on Nigeria’s traditional belief system which downgrades the personality of Africa as primitive and barabaric. Lakunle wants a wife that symbolises modernisation and that starts by not paying her bride price. He wants a village where women are treated equally like men and not the case of Baroka using his influence and power to take up any beautiful girl in the village into his harem of wives or concubine. ![]() He adores modern romance like kissing, use of red lipstick, gender equality where he will walk arm to arm and side by side with Sidi. Lakunle is educated and wants the various forms of modernization found in cities like Lagos in his village. Lakunle represents modernity but his idea of modernity seems superficial as he pays attention to trivialities of civilization. ![]() Here, Baroka represents the Nigeria state resistance to British or Western influence but couldn’t suppress the temptation of having some Western nuance to herself. On the other hand, he embraces the stamp machine to make money for himself and as a means to win Sidi’s to herself. ![]() He rejects the construction of a railway through his village by bribing the White surveyor who moves the railway to the neighbouring towns. ![]()
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