According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, history is the past events connected with the development of a particular place, subject, etc. Thus the nineteenth century was a period which impacted the history of African countries, between tradition and modernism. There was a mixing of African and European civilization; the latter through the colonization of Africa by Europe brought a lot of changes in African society on the political, economic and social levels. For Europeans, this colonization had positive results in that it allowed them to impose their languages, their cultures and to develop their economies (through the exploitation of human and natural resources). On the other hand, for Africans, this colonization had negative results and many denounced it, particularly writers who, through post-colonial theory, defended Africa during and after colonization. We can cite here Wole Soyinka who in his writings like Aké, the Years of Childhood decried this. In Aké: The Years of Childhood, Soyinka employs a narrative style to depict a childhood shaped by cultural and religious blending, where African and European traditions, traditional beliefs and Christianity, as well as local and colonial powers, coexist harmoniously.
