As a young man Achebe read the canon of western literature, but - TopicsExpress



          

As a young man Achebe read the canon of western literature, but could not find his own peoples story there. So he set about writing a tragic tale: of how a vulnerable society, and a flawed man, could not cope with the military superiority and crushing arrogance of the white invaders. Millions of readers around the world have since identified with Things Fall Apart as the definitive account of what happened to their own societies when the Europeans arrived. Invariably the colonial legacy was destructive and destabilising, and one that Nigeria, a British invention, has never quite recovered from.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:22:30 +0000

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