CONCLUSION
These two novels is a reaction to the Wesler infiltration into traditional African society and attempt at re-asserting the beauty and validity of African life and culture in the traditional milieu. The author is concerned with African culture and tradition in conflict with that of the West. His works show that Africa has dignity. It contradicts the distorted image that Europeans have about Africans. It minors the African communities and the historical experiences of Africans. The author present a balanced view of Africa to the outside world. Kane (1972) quoted in Egejuru (1982:131) explained:
It is because we have been subjected and colonized. Africa has been presented to the world as devoid of culture and history, as being inhabited by intellectually inferior beings, therefore, the first problem for the African writers is to explain and translate Africa to the Western World and to the entire cultural world.
The misconception that Africans had no history before the coming of the Europeans, because there is nothing worth writing about until then is not true as we have seen in the findings. The Western European scholars had lied about Africa.
Achebe (1964:158) made it clear that it is the duty of the writer to explain to the world that “African people did not hear of culture for the first time Europeans. Their societies were not mindless, they had a philosophy of great depth and value and beauty… and above all, they had dignity”. Camara Laye in his works debunk, lashed out and blunt the edge of Western false holds about Africa. He re-established African culture to enable the West to gain a broad idea of what it takes to be African with an African experience.
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