Introduction: Reading THINGS FALL APART, Reading a World
This is a simple book created in Scalar, an open source web platform for long-form publishing. To navigate through this book, you can either click on individual pages on the left side-bar or follow the path that has been set up below. You can also annotate individual pages.
My goal in creating this project is to provide essential background (interviews, visual images, scholarship on cultural practices) for Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, so that your reading experience is a richer, more informed one. It is my hope that your views on modern world history and the connections between Western and West African cultures will be expanded.
Begin this path
- Achebe's Commitment to Telling an Igbo Story to the World
- Interviews with Achebe
- Nigeria Imaged on Google Earth
- Thinking through the American Media's Representation of West Africa
- Igbo Civilization Before European Contact
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Half-Truths and Facts
- The Berlin Conference of 1884-85
- Igbo cosmology and Key Terms in THINGS FALL APART
- Reading the First Chapters of THINGS FALL APART
- Interactive Piece: Visualizing the Topography of the Narrative by Sketching Umuofia
- Ikenga with tools
- Ikenga Shrines
- Ikenga with head ornament
- Sounds of Nigeria: Highlife, Fela's Afrobeat, and Political Criticism
- The Will to Adorn: Nigerian Textiles and Fashion
- Batiks: Handmade Fashion in Street Shops
- Brown buba blouse and wrapper
- Blue buba blouse and wrapper
- Collage of West African cotton fabrics
- Achebe's Representation of an Igbo World
- Author Bio
- Works Cited
- Creative Commons License
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