Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

featuring Donato Fhunsu, Lecturer, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies

“Chinua Achebe caught the world’s attention with Things Fall Apart. Published in 1958, when he was 28, the book would become a classic of world literature and required reading for students, selling more than 10 million copies in 45 languages….It would be impossible to say how Things Fall Apart influenced African writing. It would be like asking how Shakespeare influenced English writers or Pushkin influenced Russians.”—The New York Times

“With his masterpiece, Things Fall Apart, one of the first works of fiction to present African village life from an African perspective, Achebe began the literary reclamation of his country’s history from generations of colonial writers.”—The New Yorker

“One of the first books to tell the story of European colonization from an African perspective. Things Fall Apart marked a turning point for African authors, who in the fifties and sixties began to take back the narrative of the so-called ‘dark continent.'”—The Atlantic

TUITION: $35, includes a copy of the book

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