Category: Chinua Achebe
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Erich Fromm’s Ideas About Personality In Things Fall Apart
Personality is built throughout someone’s childhood and a tragic event can cause it to change form. Whatever environment that a child is exposed to can influence how they begin to act, whether it be a good or bad change, they usually pick up their behavior from their guardians. In Erich Fromm’s, Sigmund Freud’s Mission (1959),…
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‘Antilles of Savanna’: The Postcolonial Problems Presented in Chinua Achebe’s Book
Chinua Achebe, emeritus professor of the University of Nigeria, one of the greatpioneers of modern African literature in English, who published several outstanding novels,among which Things Fall Apart (1958), has already become something like an Africanclassic, and who is not only known for his stories, essays, and children’s books but also forhis award-winning poetry, has…
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The Use of Proverbs in ‘Things Fall Apart’ by Chinua Achebe
Proverbs are a vital form of communication within the Ibo culture. They are sayings that have their roots in folklore and are typically passed down from generations to generations. Proverbs aid the Ibo in defending their thoughts and opinions, however in the hands of Chinua Achebe – author of Things Fall Apart – through various…
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System Of Colonialism Things Fall Apart
In 1958, the news of Chinua Achebe’s newly published book, Things Fall Apart spread like wildfire throughout the crowded streets of Africa, at last giving the Africans what they have always longed for: a novel about European colonialism in an African perspective. Before the publication of Things Fall Apart, most novels about Africa were written…