Explanation of Mungo Park’s Coffle

These sentences actually are pointing to reliance of Park on the personnel and infrastructure that the salve trader had put in place. Additionally, these specific sentences have been chosen because they indirectly emphasize the presence of both African slave trade and Atlantic slave trade.

Justification of thesis of Mungo Park’s Coffle

This group of 34 enslaved Africans, part of a caravan or coffle of 73 travelers, had been marched from the interior to the coast to be sold to European slave traders and shipped across the Atlantic. Park Traveled with the coffle by permission of its leader, the African slave trader Karfa Taura. The two made a dead: on arrival at the coast, Park would pay Karfa “the value of one prime slave.” This “benevolent Negro,” as Park calls him, helped the explorer at the lowest point of his adventurous journey (Travels, 234). (Pg. 347)

Park’s Travels presents the information the explorer collected about peoples, climate and resources of West Africa in four such interpolated chapters, one of which treats African slavery. (Pg. 350)

 Karfa fed, clothed, and sheltered the journey home. But the explorer’s homeward journey was his fellow traveler’s journey away from their homes into New World slavery. (Pg. 348)

Explanation of Mungo Park’s Coffle

Both of these passages are justifying the fact Park was downtrodden when he reached the village and he depended greatly on both the master of slaves and the infrastructure that the leader was using. Park had not eaten and while traveling with Karfa, he got the food. Although these passages affirm that Park relied on the system of slavery but they also notify about the presence of slave system.

Interconnecting Passages of Mungo Park’s Coffle

Though he was undoubtedly complicit with the slave trade, both European and African, dependent on its infrastructure and personnel to achieve his goal of reaching the Niger, Mungo Park was neither a slave owner nor a slave trader. (Pg. 349)

Park’s Travels presents the information the explorer collected about peoples, climate and resources of West Africa in four such interpolated chapters, one of which treats African slavery. (Pg. 350)

Explanation of Mungo Park’s Coffle

In the first passage, the author is explaining that Park although relied strongly on both African and European but he didn’t have any relation with the group. He was not the trader or the slave while the second passage depicts that slavery was present in Africa. The writer is explaining the origin after detailing the facts of the present. It was, after all, a group of African people with whom Park traveled with. In the Things Fall Apart, African ecocriticism has been discussed which connects both of these contexts.

Words of Mungo Park’s Coffle

Tension, journey, presentation, interrupting, formal, exploration, slavery, travelers, wandering, dependence, infrastructure, internal, legal, attention, homeward.

Definition of Mungo Park’s Coffle

Tension: It actually refers to strain whether it is mental or created by stretching a material.

Journey: It refers to the period of traveling from one place to the other.

Presentation: It refers to both the introduction of a thing and its appearance before a person.

Interrupting: It refers to something being disrupting and causing a loss in the attention.

Formal: It refers to a professional way in both the sense of presentation and tone.

Exploration: It refers to prodding into a matter or a place that is unfamiliar.

Slavery: It refers to the act of captivating someone without that person’s will.

Travelers: People that like to journey and visit places are referred as travelers.

Wandering: It refers to trekking around with no idea in mind.

Dependence: It refers to reliance of a person or something on another thing.

Infrastructure: It means the foundation of a theory or a system.

Internal: It refers to the inner side or area.

Legal: It points towards the authenticity of something or simply a statement.

Attention: In other words, it refers to focus on something.

Homeward: A direction or a thought related with the home.

Sentences of Mungo Park’s Coffle

“They took good care of the explorer on the way west, as he gratefully acknowledges. With their help and Karfa’s, Park –unlike two previous explorers sponsored by Joseph Bank’s African Association-made it back alive to the coast and thence to Britain. (Pg. 349)”

Appreciation of Mungo Park’s Coffle

In these sentences, not only a statement but the admittance of assistance has also been described. It has been explained in these sentences that Park was able to reach back unlike the others and again I found a strong connection between two different facts.

Wow Sentence of Mungo Park’s Coffle

“Park’s mediation of the First Passage is constrained in another way, however, related to the conventions of exploration narrative as a literary genre. (Pg. 349)”

Creativity of Mungo Park’s Coffle

I find this sentence connecting two contradictory statements in a graceful manner which doesn’t show a connector of sort. It is as if there is no know binding two statements together.

Comprehension passage of Mungo Park’s Coffle

The formal and stylistic tension between each of these interpolated sections and the surrounding narrative, I will argue, bespeaks a deep ambivalence on the part of Mungo Park; his sponsors, the African Association; and the British reading public about the system of transnational connections linking the places of the Atlantic rim-Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Obstacles in understanding of Mungo Park’s Coffle

There are some issues which produce a barrier in getting a real glimpse of the comprehension. First of all, the length is quite long which is connecting various statements. Additionally, the usage of tough words also makes it tough to understand it.

Sentence of Mungo Park’s Coffle

“Park traveled with the coffle by permission of its leader, the African slave trader Karfa Taura. (Pg. 347)”

Reason for disagreement of Mungo Park’s Coffle

I disagree with Elizabeth Bohls because there must be a reason why Karfa Taura agreed without anything in return about letting Park travel with the flock. As a slave trader, there has to be a reason why nothing was wanted in return.

Page numbers of Mungo Park’s Coffle

I would like to use both page number 347 and 352 for future passages.

 Ecocriticism beyond Animist Intimations in Things Fall Apart

Thesis of Mungo Park’s Coffle

“It argues that an understanding of the ecological consciousness in Things Fall Apart must begin with a rejection of the reductionist view of cultural colonial frameworks that do not take into the account the material, environmental, and spiritual aspects of African animistic rites and traditions. (Pg. 197)”

Explanation of Mungo Park’s Coffle

Actually, these sentences give almost the whole overview of the chapter about how the view regarding colonial frameworks which are cultural must be rejected. It must be done so as such a view doesn’t focus upon spiritual and many other aspects of traditions linked with African traditions. Furthermore, the statement is also telling about the various layers regarding the concerns of ecological articulation which is going to be further discussed.

Justification of thesis of Mungo Park’s Coffle

Theorizing ecocriticism in the African context is a complex cultural practice that has to take into the account the diverse material and socio-cultural contexts in Africa and also undertake a critique of modernity that has shaped Africa in singular ways in the Western imagination. (Pg. 197)

In thinking about the word “primitive,” we are compelled to ask what suggestion does it make of the anthropological description of African life in colonial times as at best animist and lacking any merit of reason? (Pg. 199)

If there is a sense in which this speaks to the notion of “symmetric anthropology,” it realistically does more than this by creating the springboard for a reading of the text in the timelessness of African ecocriticism which sets no temporal limits because environmental consciousness is in the African sense constitutive of its epistemology. (Pg. 201)

Explanation of Mungo Park’s Coffle

In these paragraphs, the flow is aligned while the aim is upon the same thing that is the ecological consciousness while different aspects of African traditions and its ecocriticism are being discussed. Although there are some other terms such as symmetric anthropology and primitive being used in the passages but they are described further in the chapter and both are connected with African life.

Interconnecting Passages of Mungo Park’s Coffle

 A peep into the work of anthropology reveals it was a nineteenth-century intellectual invention intended to serve colonial interests. (Pg. 199)

 The emergent awareness of the devastating consequences of the blind pursuit of technological advancement without thought for nature or the human others, had resulted in an unprecedented revision of primitivism in anthropological scholarship in the twenty-first century. (Pg. 199)

Explanation of Mungo Park’s Coffle

In first passage, it is actually explained that colonial interests are raised by the intellectual invention of the nineteenth century while the second passage describes the consequences of the pursuit that was directed in the way of technological advancement. The writer has connected both of these passages while context of Africa is also hidden in the words.

Words of Mungo Park’s Coffle

Tradition, rites, modernity, depletion, portrayed, complex, theorizing, various, illustration, oppositional, associating, embedded, absence, compelled, categorized.

Definition of Mungo Park’s Coffle

Tradition: It basically refers to a flow of beliefs from a generation to the other.

Rites: It points to the activities that are religious or solemn.

Modernity: It refers to switching from an old way to a new one.

Depletion: It refers to the lessening in a quantity or a level.

Portrayed: It actually refers to the presentation of an aspect.

Complex: It is just another word for difficulty but to strengthen it.

Theorizing: It refers to creating a framework on the basis of theories.

Various: It points towards many or several.

Illustration: The presentation or portrait of a thing means illustration.

Oppositional: It refers to characteristics which oppose a fact.

Associating: It refers to connecting or being involved in something.

Embedded: It is just another word for inserted or etched.

Absence: It refers to the inexistence of something or a thing that is not present.

Compelled: Attracted is just another term for compelled.

Categorized: It refers to something being specified or set in a place.

Sentences of Mungo Park’s Coffle

 A peep into the work of anthropology reveals it was a nineteenth-century intellectual invention intended to serve colonial interests. (Pg. 199)

To begin with, the polarization of the world into Global South and North is not a new phenomenon as it is preceded by the dialectic of tradition and modernity. (Pg. 201)

Appreciation of Mungo Park’s Coffle

In the first sentence, only the words can describe the creativity as every word connects with the other to describe the reason just why colonial interests were suddenly raised. Meanwhile, the second one is describing the phenomenon of polarization while modernity and tradition are pre preceded.

Wow Sentence of Mungo Park’s Coffle

“The reflection is mediated by a series of questions which are instructive for the unpacking of the ecocritical values of Things Fall Apart beyond the temporal paradigms of the West. (Pg. 201)”

Creativity of Mungo Park’s Coffle

I have taken this sentence as the source of creativity because the sheer depth of this sentence is immeasurable. Indeed, the sentence is very difficult to understand but that is what makes this sentence creative.

Comprehension passage of Mungo Park’s Coffle

In the gestalt of this can be perceived as response to the disruption of the cultural aesthetics of peace by Okonkwo, the anxiety expressed in its wake must be read as proving-again in a prescient way-the connection between climate change and food production. (Pg. 205)

Obstacle of Mungo Park’s Coffle

In this passage, getting an understanding of the real meaning is very difficult as the passage doesn’t have many sentences. It is stretching up to only a single sentence and that is what makes it difficult o understand it.

Sentence of Mungo Park’s Coffle

“An illustration of this is the harvest of locusts which are said to visit Umofia at irregular interval of years (45). (Pg. 205)”

Reason for disagreement of Mungo Park’s Coffle

I disagree with Senayon Olaoluwa because I think that a better example could be given as an illustration and not just the locusts. Locusts appear but their appearances changes and there is no fixed time.

Page numbers of Mungo Park’s Coffle

I would like to use 203, 202, and 205 page numbers in the future.