Review Paper: Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe’s, Things Fall Apart is a poignant novel about the Igbo of Southern Nigeria. An unfamiliar audience is transported to the “exotic” world of traditional African society. Achebe does not intend to write an ethnographic account of Igbo life. Although, many cultural and social aspects of the Ibo are revealed, the final message is much stronger. Achebe is attempting to remind his people as well as all people …showed first 75 words of 3663 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3663 total…If Christianity has been spread within Africa, it doesn’t thereby imply that prosperity, and stability has also spread. Achebe does influence the reader, the influence he makes is beneficial and absolutely pivotal in understanding the relationship between the west and the third world, whether it is Nigeria, Ethiopia, Palestine, Afghanistan, China, Latin America and the list could go on. Achebe has most definitely succeeded. (14) Bibliography Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor Books, 1959.