Who is the authour of Things Fall Apart?

Question

the novel is set in a typical west africa style.it depicts the bond shared in a community and the subequent coming of the White men and it is set in the colonial era.

Answer 1

Chinua Achebe

Answer 2

The Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe

Published in the United States in 1959. 2 million copies sold. Over 8 million worldwide.

The title of the book comes from a poem, "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats, and is quoted in the frontpiece of the book:

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.

The title also summarises the plot of the story, whereby the traditonal values and society of an Ibo village fall apart after the coming of the white man.

Things Fall Apart is considered by many to have been a milestone in African literature. It was followed by three sequels, No Longer at Ease (1960, originally written as the second part of a larger work together with Things Fall Apart), The Arrow of God (1964), and A Man of the People (1966), all featuring the descendants of Okonkwo, the central character of Things Fall Apart, and the problems they face under colonialism.

As in his other works, Achebe attempts to counter the common Western belief and view of the traditional African society. Things Fall Apart is by far his most famous and award-winning work.

For a rather different view of traditional Ibo society, read The Bride Price by the female Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta (born 1944).

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Things Fall Apart (1959) Author: Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, the son of a teacher in a missionary school.

His parents, though they installed in him many of the values of their traditional Igbo culture, were devout evangelical Protestants and christened him Albert after Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. In 1944 Achebe attended Government College in Umuahia. Like other major Nigerian writers including Wole Soyinka, Elechi Amadi, John Okigbo, John Pepper Clark, and Cole Omotso, he was also educated at the University College of Ibadan, where he studied English, history and theology.

At the university Achebe rejected his British name and took his indigenous name Chinua. In 1953 he graduated with a BA. Before joining the Nigerian Broadcasting Company in Lagos in 1954 he travelled in Africa and America, and worked for a short time as a teacher. In the 1960s he was the director of External Services in charge of the Voice of Nigeria.

Things Fall Apart depicts the life of Okonkwo, ambitious and powerful leader of an Igbo community, who counts on physical strength and courage. Okonkwo's life is good: his compound is large, he has no troubles with his wives, his garden grows yams, and he is respected by his fellow villagers.

When Okonkwo accidentally kills a clansman, he is banished from the village for seven years. But the vehicle for his downfall is his blindness to circumstances and the missionary church, which brings with it the new authority of the British District Commissioner. The story is set in the 1890s, when missionaries and colonial government made its intrusion into Igbo society. In this process Okonkwo is destroyed, because his unwillingness to change set him apart from the community and he is fighting alone against colonialism. Achebe took the title of the book from William Butler Yates's The Second Coming - "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

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Chinua Achebe

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Chinua Achebe

Answer 6

Things Fall Apart is a seminal novel written in 1958 by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

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Chinua Achebe(Albert Chinualumagu)wrote this novel.The title is taken from W.B.Yeats's poem.The theme is already known to u.It seems the author himself has had similar experiences as mentioned in the novel.The chief character is Okonkwo.

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Answer 9

Norman Wisdom

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