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  • Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist considered the father of modern African literature.
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    Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe First published in 1959 (One of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things Fall Apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. --W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" CHAPTER ONE Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He was called the Cat because his back would never touch the earth. It was this man that Okonkwo threw in a fight which the old men agreed was one of the fiercest since the founder of their town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights. The drums beat and the flutes sang and the spectators held their breath. Amalinze was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was as slippery as a fish in water. Every nerve and every muscle stood out on their arms, on their backs and their thighs, and one almost heard them stretching to breaking point. In the end Okonkwo threw the Cat. That was m

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    Things fall apart

  • 1. Things Fall Apart An African novel by Chinua Achebe

  • 2. Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)

  • 3. Chinua Achebe – “the father of modern African literature” • Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, the fifth of six children, was born to converts to Christianity on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, an Igbo villiage in southeastern Nigeria, which had been one of the first centers of missionary work in Nigeria. • Studied History and theology at the University of Ibadan. While in college he developed his interest in indigenous Nigerian cultures. He also rejected his Christian name and took his indigenous African name. • After graduation Achebe began teaching but left after a few months to take a job with the Nigerian Broadcasting Service where he wrote scripts. He also began working on his own novel, in English, Things Fall Apart. • 1956 he was selected to go to London for training at the BBC – his first trip outside Nigeria. He brought manuscript with him, received feedback and offer for publishing, which he declined, saying manuscript needed more work. Things Fall Apart was published in 1958, two years before Nigerian independence. He is considered one of the founders of a Nigerian literary movement of the 1950s

  • 4. Chinua Achebe – since “Things Fall Apart” • He became involve