Chinua Achebe’s first novel “Things Fall Apart” is considered one of the greatest works ... Okonkwo is a complex and flawed character making futile attempts to resist change in their world. Even ...

The themes in the novel are plentiful and diverse. But which are the major themes in Things Fall Apart? A theme is a central, universal idea, lesson, or message explored in a literary work.

Things Fall Apart (1958) has been called “the finest novel written about life in Nigeria at the end of the 19th century” and “a classic of world literature.” The book describes the ...

A half century after Chinua Achebe penned 'Things Fall Apart', Jeffrey Brown discusses ... you don't paint an idealized vision there. The main character, Okonkwo, is thoughtful, but violent.

The classic example is a novel ... of Johnson. Things Fall Apart, however, unlike Mister Johnson, is tragedy pure and simple, both deeply personal–in the case of its main character, the ...

How it would feel meeting relations of the people who inspired the creation of characters in an epic novel? Evelyn Osagie met those linked with the globally acclaimed Things Fall Apart at Ogidi ...

Idris Elba will help bring an all-time classic novel to the screen. Elba will star in and executive produce a TV series adaptation of the acclaimed 1958 Nigerian novel "Things Fall Apart," an ...