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Things Fall Apart is the 1958 debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It portrays the life of Okonkwo, a traditional influential leader of the fictional Igbo clan, Umuofia. He is a feared warrior and a local wrestling champion who opposes colonialism and the early Christian missionaries.
This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
[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.
Phrases in the poem have been adopted as the title in a variety of media. The words "things fall apart" in the third line are alluded to by Chinua Achebe in his novel Things Fall Apart (1958), [1] The Roots in their album Things Fall Apart (1999), [15] and Jon Ronson in his podcast series Things Fell Apart (2021). [16]
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 ...
In addition, integration with machine translation has been disabled for all users. [1] Due to a configuration error, [2] between at least 11 December 2015 [3] and 26 July 2016, [4] this tool was using machine translation from the source language to English. The user was then expected to check and fix the translation before publication.
Things Fall Apart is the fourth studio album by American hip hop band the Roots, released on February 23, 1999, by MCA Records.Recording sessions for the album took place at Electric Lady during 1997 to 1998, coinciding with recording for other projects of the Soulquarians collective, including D'Angelo's Voodoo (2000), Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun (2000), and Common's Like Water for Chocolate (2000).