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Background information Things fall apart Background information

setting When: around 1900 Where: Nigeria Specifically in the villages of Umuofia and Mbanta Focuses on the Igbo tribe

Cultural context IMPERIALISM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJe1W_HIWmA

Influential people CHINUA ACHEBE Nigerian author Lifespan: 1930-2013 (82 years old) Known as an educator, a novelist, and the director of broadcasting (NBC) “The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”

Significant work Published in 1958 Fictional, but documents Africa’s true spiritual history Criticizes colonialism and imperialism Written in response to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) A novella written about the colonization of Africa through imperialist eyes