Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
1959
Things Fall Apart is a 1958 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is Achebe's debut novel and was written when he was working at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. The novel was first published in London by Heinemann on 17 June 1958.

The story, which is set in British Nigeria, centers on the irrepressible Okonkwo, a traditional influential leader of the fictional Igbo clan Umuofia, who opposes colonialism and early Christianity. The novel's title was taken from a verse of "The Second Coming", a 1919 poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. Things Fall Apart formed the first part of Achebe's "African trilogy" with his novels No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God. The novel explores many themes, especially culture, masculinity, pride, violence, and colonialism.

Things Fall Apart is regarded as a milestone in African literature. It gained critical acclaim and popularity upon publication, and has been translated into over fifty languages. It was listed on Time's "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
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Before the publication of Things Fall Apart, most novels about Africa were written by Europeans and portrayed Africans as savages in need of Western enlightenment. Things Fall Apart paved the way for representations of African culture not created by outsiders; the novel influenced other African writers to write about the social, historical, and cultural aspects of modern Africa.

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