In 2008, 50 years after publishing his debut novel, Achebe explained to PBS News Hour that he wrote Things Fall Apart because “something needed to be done.” He’d had an English education and ...

The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe -- Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor -- Eternal sacred order versus ...

Things Fall Apart, a fictional book written by the legendary writer Chinua Achebe, is 67 years old. The literature text read by many was originally published on June 17, 1958.

In 1958 Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, published his first book, Things Fall Apart. Set in pre-colonial rural Nigeria, it examines how the arrival of foreigners led to tensions within traditional ...

A literary legacy. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is not just a story; it is a cornerstone of African literature and has garnered international acclaim. The novel is the first in Achebe’s ...

CHINUA ACHEBE’S FAMOUS first novel, Things Fall Apart, conspicuously borrows from Yeats. The memoir with which he bookends his long career, There Was a Country, is a far more literal explanation ...

Things Fall Apart, the first novel written by late Nigerian literary icon, Chinua Achebe, has made the list of 12 “Greatest Books Ever Written” compiled by Encyclopedia Britannica.

Things Fall Apart is a classic novel written by Chinua Achebe in 1958. It is set in Africa and follows the life of Okonkwo as he watches his home being colonized by the British, and his life and ...

Chinua Achebe. | Leonardo Cendamo/GettyImages. In 2008, 50 years after publishing his debut novel, Achebe explained to PBS News Hour that he wrote Things Fall Apart because “something needed to ...

Things Fall Apart, the first novel written by late Nigerian literary icon, Chinua Achebe, has made the list of 12 "Greatest Books Ever Written" compiled by Encyclopedia Britannica.