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"…offers any teacher a multitude of approaches for a class on the novel or on the construction of culture…Recommended."
Research in African Literature on
Understanding Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is the most widely
read and influential African novel. This sourcebook provides a wealth
of commentary and original materials that place the novel in its
historical, social, and cultural contexts. The author, an Igbo scholar,
has selected a wide variety of historical and firsthand accounts
of the Igbo historical and cultural heritage. These accounts
illuminate the issues relating to Britain's colonization of Nigeria.
Fascinating materials bring to light the novel's cultural context
- folkways, language and narrative customs, and traditional
Igbo religion. Among the documents are a slave narrative, interviews,
journal and magazine articles, and historical essays
This online sourcebook, useful for students
and teachers of African history, anthropology, religion, and literary
history, provides the user access to:
- Audio of Chinua Achebe discussing his hopes for Nigeria after
the demise of General Sani Abacha in 1998
- New York Times interview with Chinua Achebe, January
10, 2000
- Additional excerpts from Olaudah Equiano's slave narrative
- Biographical profiles of Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Olaudah
Equiano, Cyprian Ekwensi, Amos Tutola, Onuora Nzekwu, John Munonye,
Elechi Amadi, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Ayikwei Armah,
and Lewis Nkosi
- Igboland profile: language, location, history, economy, politics
- Ibo landing folktale
- Images and photos of Mbari shrines, masks, statues; and photographs
from dibia festival
- Contextual timelines
- Glossary of cultural references and historical idioms from
Things Fall Apart
- Web-based study questions
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