TY  - BOOK
AU  - Achebe,Chinua
AU  - Okeke,Uche
TI  - Things fall apart
T2  - African writers series
SN  - 0435905260 (pbk)
U1  - 823 22
PY  - 1958///
CY  - London
PB  - Heinemann
KW  - Igbo (African people)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Fiction in English
KW  - Nigerian writers, to 1960 - Texts
N1  - First published by Willial Heinemann Ltd., 1958. First published in Africa Writers Series as AWS 1, in 1962
N2  - The story of Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart takes place in the Nigerian village of Umuofia in the late 1880s, before missionaries and other outsiders have arrived. The Ibo clan practices common tribal traditions - worship of gods, sacrifice, communal living, war, and magic. Leadership is based on a man's personal worth and his contribution to the good of the tribe. Okonkwo stands out as a great leader of the Ibo tribe. Tribesmen respect Okonkwo for his many achievements. Even though the tribe reveres Okonkwo, he must be punished for his accidental shooting of a young tribesman. The Ibo ban Okonkwo from the clan for seven years. Upon his return to the village, Okonkwo finds a tribe divided by the influence of missionaries and English bureaucrats who have interrupted the routine of tradition. Only when Okonkwo commits the ultimate sin against the tribe does the tribe come back together to honor custom
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