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Chinua Achebe, who has died at the age of 82, was more than a novelist.He was a total man of letters, who wrote poetry and essays and oversaw a trailblazing series of books by African writers.But ...
Things Fall Apart is the first novel by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It portrays the life of Okonkwo, a traditional influential leader of the fictional Igbo clan, Umuofia. He is a feared warrior and a local wrestling champion who opposed the European colonialism and Christian missionaries. An early modernist novel, it received positive ...
- Chinua Achebe
- 1958
May 19, 2008 · Achebe at home in Annandale-on-Hudson. Photograph by Steve Pyke. In a myth told by the Igbo people of Nigeria, men once decided to send a messenger to ask Chuku, the supreme god, if the dead could ...
- Ruth Franklin
Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s and portrays the clash between Nigeria’s white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people. Achebe’s novel shatters the stereotypical European portraits of native Africans. He is careful to portray the complex, advanced social institutions and artistic traditions of ...
Sep 11, 2024 · Things Fall Apart, first novel by Chinua Achebe, written in English and published in 1958. Things Fall Apart helped create the Nigerian literary renaissance of the 1960s. The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community, from the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The story takes place in fictional villages, and although it is not based on a specific true story, it can be considered historical fiction. In the novel, Achebe brings to light the realistic ...
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Chinua Achebe wrote ‘ Things Fall Apart ’ as a response to skewed portrayals of Africa by European writers. The Nigeria Achebe grew up in was under the throes of a British colonial process that had begun decades before his birth. While growing up, Achebe was exposed to literature by Europeans that attempted to describe Africa and its people ...
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