A REVIEW ON THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE(PAGE 1)

THE REVIEW OF THINGS FALL APART

About The Author:

Albert Chinualumogu popularly known as Chinua Achebe was born in 16th November 1930 in nneobi in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centres of Anglican Missionary work in igboland, Eastern Nigeria and he was brought up in a Christian Evangelical family. Achebe is an internationally acclaimed writer regarded as the founding father of modern literature in English.
He studied medicine and literature at the University of Ibadan and his career in radio ended abruptly in 1966 due to the massacres that led to Biafran war. He wrote many novels in which one named "A man of the people" which implicated him in the Nigeria first military coup. His academic career began in the University in 1967 as a senior research fellow at the University of Nigeria. He was an emeritus professor in 1985, taught in university of Massachusetts and University of Connecticut.
Achebe has received numerous honours from different parts of the world, including over thirty from universities across the world. In 1987, he received Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement, the Nigeria National Merit Award. In 2002, he was awarded the prestigious peace prize of the German Book Trade. In 2007, he was named the winner of the Man Booker international prize in honour of his literary career.
Achebe is the author of many novels, short stories, essays and children's books, his book are as follows: No longer at ease, arrow of God, A man of the people, Anthills of the Savannah, beware soul brother and his first novel being published in 1958 named; Things Fall Apart.

About The Book:

Dr Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, a Malawian Academic is a senior lecturer in English and humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, who published Things Fall Apart (2007) widely on African literature.
The novel was first published by William Hienemann Ltd 1958, first published in the African Writers Series 1962 and this edition is published by Pearson Education limited 2008.
Things Fall Apart is a novel that portrays the collision of African and European cultures in People's lives. Okonkwo a great man in igbo traditional society cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's downfall results from his character as well as from external forces.