THINGS FALL APART

By : CHINUA ACHEBE

OVERVIEW

Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s and portrays the clash between Nigerias white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Albert Chinualu !"u A#hebe

Born : November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, Nigeria He studied history and theology in University College, Ibadan 19 0s, !"hebe #as one o$ the $ounders o$ a Nigerian literary movement that dre# u%on the traditional oral "ulture o$ its indigenous %eo%les 19 9! he %ublished Things Fall Apart as a res%onse to novels, su"h as &ose%h Conrad's Heart of Darkness, that treat !$ri"a as a %rimordial and "ultureless $oil $or (uro%e

)ired o$ reading #hite men's a""ounts o$ ho# %rimitive, so"ially ba"*#ard, and, most im%ortant, language+less native !$ri"ans #ere, !"hebe sought to "onvey a $uller understanding o$ one !$ri"an "ulture and, in so doing, give voi"e to an underre%resented and e,%loited "olonial sub-e"t !"hebe has be"ome reno#ned throughout the #orld as a $ather o$ modern !$ri"an literature, essayist, and %ro$essor o$ (nglish literature at .ard College in Ne# /or* He #or*ed $or the Nigerian .road"asting Com%any $or over a de"ade and later be"ame an (nglish %ro$essor at the University o$ Nigeria He has been in$luential in the %ubli"ation o$ ne# Nigerian #riters 19"#, he "o+$ounded a %ublishing "om%any #ith a Nigerian %oet named Christo%her O*igbo 19#1, he began editing O*i*e, a res%e"ted -ournal o$ Nigerian #riting 198$, he $ounded U#a ndi Igbo, a bilingual maga0ine "ontaining a great deal o$ in$ormation about Igbo "ulture He has been a"tive in Nigerian %oliti"s sin"e the 1960s, and many o$ his novels address the %ost+"olonial so"ial and %oliti"al %roblems that Nigeria still $a"es