Things fall apart /
Chinua Achebe
- Published as a Penguin classic in 2010.
- Penguin Group, London. 1958
- 197 p. : 18 cm.
First published in 1958, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.