Seasons of Migration to the North

Season of Migration to the North is a novel concerning about various issues ranging from colonial arrogance, the politics of "independent" Sudan, the status of women and their sexuality in which are revealed by an unnamed narrator. The narrator himself is also a complex character as demonstrated through his nameless character, his relationships with his parents, his grandfather, and other village people. Like Professor Mufti mentioned in lecture today, the title of the novel itself gives an ideology of the North-South dichotomy as the narrator himself chooses to go North to study. The narrator's confrontation to the West opens up new feelings of confusion, lack of will, and indecision in which he battles by the end of the novel. This further demonstrates the overarching theme of the class of the clash between the West and the "rest" or the North and the South as it is referred in the book.