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The Importance of Being Canadian
Carol Off
From: Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa
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In Chapter 10, Philpot examines Carol Off’s essay “The Lion, The Fox and the Eagle.” Off’s essay the is about author’s heroes, Roméo Dallaire (“the lion”), Louise Arbour (“the eagle”), and Lewis MacKenzie (“the fox”), and it is also about defining the role of Canada and Canadians in international affairs through the two major crises: those in Rwanda and Yugoslavia. Philpot uses the essay to discuss topics such as the tenacity and the pervasiveness of the literary convention in which Africa is the testing ground for European character, the glorification of Canadian institutions in Africa through Dallaire and Arbour, and the delegating of Africans as mere caricatures in their own history.
