1. Background information
Things fall apart
Background information

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

3. Cultural context IMPERIALISM

4. Influential people
CHINUA ACHEBE
Nigerian author
Lifespan: (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.”

5. 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