Throughout Season of Migration to the North, Salih continuously compares colonization to a disease. A contagious one that infect the minds of any who encounter it, a disease that causes destruction and violence. Salih states in the book that the women who had relations with Mustafa “were not killed by Mustafa Sa’eed, but by the germ of a deadly disease that assailed them a thousand years ago” (Salih, 29). Mustafa’s demise is attributed to the sickness that is colonization, rather than his troubling personality. He states, “a thousand years ago”, alluding all the way back to the conquering’s of Rome and Ancient Greece, stating that it, colonization, was “imported to [them]...the germ of a deadly disease that struck them more than a thousand years ago” (Salih, 79). Here, Salih is not stepping back from his criticism of the British, to share his view on the concept of colonization. He does this further by stating that if the disease of colonization is not cured, the African people risk losing their identity and
Throughout Season of Migration to the North, Salih continuously compares colonization to a disease. A contagious one that infect the minds of any who encounter it, a disease that causes destruction and violence. Salih states in the book that the women who had relations with Mustafa “were not killed by Mustafa Sa’eed, but by the germ of a deadly disease that assailed them a thousand years ago” (Salih, 29). Mustafa’s demise is attributed to the sickness that is colonization, rather than his troubling personality. He states, “a thousand years ago”, alluding all the way back to the conquering’s of Rome and Ancient Greece, stating that it, colonization, was “imported to [them]...the germ of a deadly disease that struck them more than a thousand years ago” (Salih, 79). Here, Salih is not stepping back from his criticism of the British, to share his view on the concept of colonization. He does this further by stating that if the disease of colonization is not cured, the African people risk losing their identity and