Easily would have been outed as a witch within the passing of two moons. Chinua Achebe wasn’t even trying to impress us, it reads just like a well written story but you can’t help but learn from it Roles and colonisationĪnother thought is that as a woman, I probably would not have survived all the restrictive roles. Much of the book is detailing every day village life. All of these things together reflected a picture of how much of a culture was already in existence. The proverbs thing, I was in two spaces on! One was – hurry up and finish the sentence please! But it was also kind of comforting because that’s how my grand parents/ aunts/ uncles liked to talk sometimes. Achebe really builds up the culture and traditions. The community out look, the farming, the speaking in proverbs. The colonisation? The introduction of capitalism? The turning of clans, corrupting from within? The way even the most prominent of characters can be reduced to footnotes in their own story? Some aspects really do transcend time and space to hit me.Ĭhinua Achebe wasn’t even trying to impress us, it reads just like a well written story but you can’t help but learn from it The only thing I can offer right in this moment are personal impacts, and even with that, I wouldn’t know where to begin. No matter what I say, I’m sure someone, somewhere, some academic or reader has said it better. There is just so much to be said on the themes and ideology that make up this story. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is a genuine classic for me.
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