This work is a critical analysis of Chinua Achebe’s writing techniques in Thing Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease. It shows how characters’ culture, and identity shaped by society’s principles, and religious power, leads to alienation and isolation. It analyses identity dynamics of characters in relation to their social, cultural, religious, economic and psychological duties. It also aims at showing the effects of religious difference and traditional downfall. The analysis details how the loss of religious identity by the Igbo people in Nigeria is influenced by the colonial impact and Christianity. The article leans on semiotics approach to interpret signs, symbolic tools to colonialism as a disfiguring force of cultural identity. Adopting a comparative reading of both novels, this work also reflects on the awareness of the conflicts between tradition and modernity and the impacts of colonial power in post-colonial fiction.
Keywords: Colonization, culture, identity, religion, resistance
