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- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- The story narrates African life prior to the arrival of colonial powers, and then thesubsequent colonization of Nigeria by Britain.
- Perhaps the single most famous piece of African literature, Achebe’s first novel is a two-part story about Ibotribesman Okonkwo.
- Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958.
- Itis seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English,
- It depicts pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the invasion by Europeans during the late 19th century.
- and one of the first to receive global critical acclaim. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and is widely read and studied in English-speaking countriesaround the world. The novel was first published in the UK in 1962 by William Heinemann Ltd, and became the first work published in Heinemann's African Writers Series.
- The work is split into three parts, with the first describing his family, personalhistory, and the customs and society of the Igbo,
- The novel follows the life of Okonkwo, an Igbo (Ibo in the novel) man and local wrestling champion in the fictional Nigerian clan of Umuofia.
- and the second and third sections introducing the influence of European colonialism and Christian missionaries on Okonkwo, his family, and the wider Igbo community.
- The tension about whether change should be privileged over tradition often involves questions of personal status.
- As a story about a culture on the verge of change, Things Fall Apart deals with how the prospect and reality of change affect various characters
- The publication of Achebe's Things Fall Apart helped pave the way for numerous other African writers. Novelists who published after Achebe were able to find an eloquent and effective mode for the expression of the particular social, historical, and cultural situation of modern Africa.[5] Before Things Fall Apart was published, most of the novels about Africa had been written by European authors, portraying Africans as savages who were in need of western enlightenment.
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