Jumping Monkey Hill Themes
Power dynamics/colonial legacy
Patriarchy
Stereotypes/Stigma
Sexualization of woman
Fear of power
Anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs
Set in stone by community
Colonial legacy
Edwaed thinks they wont understand him, so he talk to them like theyre kids and legnthens his words
Looks are assumed - "tall men with wide foreheads wearing tattered beards and short sleeved patterned shirts."
Foods are streryotped, for example, ostrich
"You Kenyans are too submissive! youo NIgerians are too agressive! You tanzanians have no fashion sense! you senegelese are too brainwashed by the french"
Edward has a passion for staring at womens bodies, as he has done this to several people in this workshop
Lesbisan jokes
Fear of speaking up
Fear of standing up for what is right, (eg when edward ,makes innaproprate jokes about women, or sexualizes them)
Power battle "would you like me to stand uo fir you, edward"
Danger of a single story (non-literary device)
Face and body is not visible, which allows reader to make assumptions, to fill in the blank. This is something everyone does. which shows how assuming things from a single story is something that is encoded in our heads. This is similar to Jumping monkey hill, as assumptions are made from a single story
"this may be indeed the year 2000, but how African is it for a person to tell her family that she is homosexual"
Ujinwa wanted to study literature, but her aprents were against it and told her it wasnt viable
Woman sometimes fear men "Then she stopped herself and appologized." - scared of consequences