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The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming ...
Things Fall Apart was considered Achebe's magnum opus and formed his "African trilogy" with his other novels; No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God. The novel explores many themes especially culture, masculinity, and colonialism. Things Fall Apart is regarded as a milestone in African literature. It gained critical acclaim and popularity upon ...
[173] [174] Things Fall Apart has been described as the most important book in modern African literature [175] and was described as his masterpiece by critic Dwight Garner. [176] Selling over 20 million copies worldwide, it has been translated into 57 languages, [177] making Achebe the most translated, studied, and read African author.
"the centre cannot hold", a phrase from the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats; The Centre Cannot Hold, a 2017 album by Ben Frost; American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold, a novel by Harry Turtledove; The Centre Cannot Hold, an EP by Digitonal; The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, a book by Elyn Saks; The Centre ...
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Chinua Achebe.It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Colonial Nigeria civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe.
Things Fall Apart is a 1958 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart may also refer to: Things Fall Apart, 1999 album by the hip hop band The Roots "Things Fall Apart" (The West Wing), 2005 TV episode "Things Fall Apart" , 2009 TV episode "Things Fall Apart" (Where the Heart Is), 1997 TV episode
An Igbo fable concerning the tortoise and the birds has gained wide distribution because it occurs in the famous novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. [16] The tortoise, who is a West African trickster figure, hears of a feast to be given by the sky-dwellers to the birds and persuades them to take him with them, winged in their feathers ...
An Iyi-uwa is an object from Igbo mythology that binds the spirit of a dead child (known as ogbanje) to the world, causing it to return and be born again to the same mother.