Described by Barack Obama as a masterpiece, Things Fall Apart provides a lens through which readers get a glimpse of life in precolonial Nigeria.
Described by Barack Obama as a masterpiece, Things Fall Apart provides a lens through which readers get a glimpse of life in precolonial Nigeria. The first of three classic novels in Chinua Achebe’s acclaimed African Trilogy centers on Okonkwo, a fierce Igbo warrior who fights against (and despairs at) the loss of his culture as Europeans settle across the continent.