This led to what the scholars have termed ‘psychocultural marginality’,41 wherein loss of cultural identity results in social and individual disorganisation which manifests as ‘low self-esteem, extreme poverty, oppression, depression, loss of identity, substance abuse, violence, lower life expectancy, low educational attainment, limited employment, poor housing and ill health’.42 It is a continuing state of limbo wherein the natives are neither capable of subscribing to the culture of the coloniser nor going back to their own roots,
