Things Fall Apart context

Question 1

Introduction

Answer 1

Published in 1958, Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ explores the complexities of late 19th century Igbo society.

Question 2

Introduction Part 2

Answer 2

Achebe who came into adulthood after Nigeria came independent from British rule in 1960

Question 3

Context of why the novel was written

Answer 3

Achebe’spostcolonial novel is important because it is a story about Africa from an African- and not European voice -voice.

Question 4

Context about europeanauthors who wrongly depicted Africa

Answer 4

Achebe, as a postcolonial writer, was appalleled by the depiction of “primitve” African people by Western writers, such as in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

Question 5

Names of authors who wrote wrong depictions about Africa

Answer 5

Joyce Carey and Joseph Conrad

Question 6

Context about how Achebe was brought up

Answer 6

Achebe, who was raised in an Igbo twon but by parents who had converted to the Christian faith, experienced first-hand the clash of cultures that colonialsim brought to Nigeria

Question 7

Another reason Achebe wrote the novel

Answer 7

Achebe himself said that his novel aimed to teach African readers that “their past-with all its imperfrection-was not one long night of savagery” from which European missionaries delivered them.

Question 8

Conclusion Part 1

Answer 8

Written two years before Nigerian Indepence was achieved, the nation was presented with an opportunity to regain its tradition but also remove the flaws in it and take the postives from ay change

Question 9

Conclusion Part 2

Answer 9

Achebe’s novel serves as a timely reminder as Nigeria was on the brink of independence