Achebe pays considerable attention to showing the subtle, or not so subtle, ways that the traditional tribal society was divided then dominated by only a few white missionaries and administrators along with a number of African helpers.Īchebe had two audiences in mind. It is meant to serve as an alternative to the Eurocentric version of events provided by the coloniser.Ĭonsequently, rather than seeing the Ibo as a primitive people who stood to benefit from the impact of colonisation, Achebe’s book portrays the pre-colonial tribal society as viable, civilised and potentially enduring until it was gradually encroached upon, undermined, and then subordinated by a European power. Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart (1958) presents a history from an African perspective of the colonisation by the British of the Ibo tribal lands and people in Nigeria.
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