Things Fall Apart

Okonkwo, a proud man in an Igbo village, lives by strength and fear of weakness, until missionaries and colonial government arrive. Achebe shows the community from inside, with its proverbs, laws and arguments, before showing it break. Written in clear English, it became a founding book of modern African fiction.

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