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** Book Title: ** Things Fall Apart ** Author ** : Chinua Achebe



=== ﻿" The white man is very clever. He came quietly with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."===

Things Fall Apart is a [|1958] English language novel by [|Nigerian] author [|Chinua Achebe]. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. It is seen as the archetypal modern [|African novel] in English, and one of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim. The title of the novel comes from [|William Butler Yeats] 's poem [|"The Second Coming"]. [|[1]] In 2009, Newsweek ranked Things Fall Apart #14 on its list of Top 100 Books: The Meta-List. [|[2]] The novel depicts the life of [|Okonkwo], a leader and local wrestling champion in Umuofia—one of a fictional group of nine villages in Nigeria, inhabited by the [|Igbo] ethnic group. In addition it focuses on his three wives, his children, and the influences of [|British] colonialism and Christian [|missionaries] on his traditional [|Igbo] (archaically "Ibo") community during the late nineteenth century. Things Fall Apart was followed by a sequel, [|No Longer at Ease] ( [|1960] ), originally written as the second part of a larger work together with Things Fall Apart, and [|Arrow of God] ( [|1964] ), on a similar subject. Achebe states that his two later novels, [|A Man of the People] ( [|1966] ) and [|Anthills of the Savannah] ( [|1987] ), while not featuring Okonkwo's descendants and set in fictional African countries, are spiritual successors to the previous novels in chronicling African history. courtesy of wikipedia.