"While history went on mocking the victims of branding irons and sugar-plantations that made Jane Austen's people wealthy beyond compare," the people that Felix Mnthali love are being suppressed because nobody will hear the outcry of someone of a different tongue. Felix genuinely believes that his people have a story to tell that is beyond what the history books are telling. Their cry is suppressed by the Stranglehold of English Literature that says how a person may speak, and what language is acceptable. This leads to a bottleneck of knowledge to where only the knowledge, morals, and laws of the oppressors is allowed to continue. Felix knows that the values of his people are in jeopardy of extinction because of this bottleneck. The true shame is that the people he is defending have a little voice that only those interested will hear, and though Felix may be shouting his voice may not be enough.
If it is my opinion that you are seeking on the matter I will post that history will prove that very often the voices of the conquered are never heard because it is those who win the battle that write the history books. So, is it a shame? My reply would be yes, I love the culture and life that Africans lead, and I believe they have more to offer us then we may have to offer them. Do I agree with the writer? Yes I do. Felix calls it as he sees it when he says that English Lit. was at the very heart of the conquest because we control the knowledge and controlling the education of those who are so lucky as to receive the educations that we have to offer the knowledge we give them is biased towards our own morals,and laws.
In the end of this little journal, all I can say is I am sorry that we are a part of this system that strangles independence of morals, beliefs, and laws.
