This paper uses N'gugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichié's The Thing around your Neck to explore the ongoing changes brought about by interdisciplinarity in some African education systems. Its mainquest is to find a successful model of learning that reflects intercultural realities. To achieve this, it uses Zilberberg and Fontanille's tensive modelization, to analyse the intensity and extensity of the values contained in the phenomena observed in educational systems. Through the life of the characters in the corpus, it draws up a traditional and modern representation of learning process and analyses the variations in interdisciplinary relations. As a result, it offers a broad institutional understanding of multidisciplinary education systems, including diverse cultural values.
