Write a research the life and work of Chinua Achebe, a major figure in African literature, and write a formal paper that relates his life and that of his people, the Ibo, to his novel, Things Fall Apart.

Write a research the life and work of Chinua Achebe, a major figure in African literature, and write a formal paper that relates his life and that of his people, the Ibo, to his novel, Things Fall Apart.

1. How has Achebe’s life and Ibo culture shaped the story, the book’s point of view, and its style?

2. What is the book’s historical significance?

Your answer to these questions or the answers to the question you pose about your own topic will be your paper’s thesis, which you should state in one or two sentences within the first paragraph of your paper. You will need to investigate and document British imperialism and its effects in West Africa, especially in Nigeria, from ca. 1890 to 1960. You will also need to research and document Ibo culture, the educational and cultural system established by the British, Chinua Achebe’s life, and his reactions to British educational and cultural norms. Finally, you will need to examine how the novel presents Achebe’s (and the Ibo’s) responses to British
imperialism.

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