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by Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart has been called the archetypal African novel. It was the first West African novel written in English that succeeded in giving European readers a sympathetic understanding of the indigenous culture, which ...
amazing for its vivid image of Igbo humanity at the end of the nineteenth century (Carroll, 34). When the British colonial experts set down in this South-eastern Nigerian territory, they discovered a persons, highly "decentralized, segment...
Things Fall Apart seems to dispute and contradict that theory at many times. While the text faintly shows us the significance of women (women painted the houses of the egwugwu and the first wife is given great respect) it time and time agai...
an continent. In attempting to understand behavior in settings different from those in which the discipline evolved, causes for the failure to articulate the relationship between the individual and social change are explored. The novel is b...
stories, it becomes evident that the theme of religion has been highlighted in both of them. Achebe puts emphasis upon the concept of Igbo gods that are, on several instances, projected as manifestations of the various elements of nature. H...
July 1967 – 15 January 1970) was a political conflict attributable to the attempted secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed “Republic of Biafra”. The Biafrans were initially a part of Nigeria until, May 30 ...
THINGS FALL APART, appeared in 1958. The story of a traditional village "big man" Okonkwo, and his downfall has been translated into some 50 languages. It was followed two year later by NO LONGER AT EASE, and ARROW OF GOD (1964), which conc...