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Abstract

Post colonialism is generally taken to be a term of repression and resistance. But post colonialism need not necessarily connote a violent reaction of the dominating and the dominated against each other. In fact more than repression and regression, cultural and political adaptation and appropriation seem to have been at work in this process. Several postcolonial theorists have condoned the view that colonialism and post colonialism are a process of cultural interchange and intermixture. There is a certain amount of glorification and mutual desire involved in this process. The dialectics of desire has been dealt with at length by postcolonial theorists like Fanon who have pinned it onto a sense of shortcoming within the colonized.  Several nationalist leaders and thinkers like Mohandas Karamch and Gandhi and Chinua Achebe have proved with their lives the necessity of adaptation before one could develop one’s own resistance. Chinua Achebe broadly marked as a resistant writer has however not been unaware of the working of cultural exchange through adaptation which he has subtly indicated in his novels, and this paper attempts to study such an angle of postcolonial theory in Achebe’s novels.   Key words: Post colonialism, domination, culture, colonized.