Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
The African civilization story colonizers didn't write.
you were taught that colonialism brought civilization to Africa and are ready to find out what was already there
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Okonkwo is a great man in the Igbo village of Umuofia — wrestler, farmer, warrior, father — living inside a complex, functioning civilization. Then the British arrive. Achebe wrote this in 1958 because he was tired of African novels that showed Africans through European eyes. He wanted to write the story from inside, in a prose that carried the rhythms of Igbo storytelling. The book that changed African literature and still hasn't been surpassed as the definitive dispatch from inside precolonial Africa meeting its end.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Nigeria • West Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Nigerian author
- Themes
- After Empire
