Published in 1958, Things Fall Apart is one of the masterpieces of 20th century African fiction. Drawing on indigenous Nigerian oral traditions, this movement enriched European literary forms in hopes of creating a new literature, in English but unmistakably African. In the 1950s, an exciting new literary movement grew in strength. His father taught at the missionary school, and Achebe witnessed firsthand the complex mix of benefit and catastrophe that the Christian religion had brought to the Igbo people. He had grown up in Ogidi, a large village in Nigeria. He died in 2013.Chinua Achebe's college work sharpened his interest in indigenous Nigerian cultures. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. He was also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Merit Award. The author of more than twenty books - novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry - Achebe received numerous honours from around the world, including honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. 1930) was raised in the large village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria, and graduated from University College, Ibadan. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease.Ĭhinua Achebe (b.
With his world thrown radically off-balance, he can only hurtle towards tragedy.įirst published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature, and has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages.
Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. 'The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down' - Nelson Mandela
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