ABSTRACT
Chinua Achebe is Africa’s best-known writer and is seen by many as the
founding father of African fiction. His first novel, Things Fall Apart
(1958), not only told the story of the colonial encounter from an African
point of view, but also gave life and validity to the Igbo village community
which grappled with the meaning of that encounter. His subsequent
novels, No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964) and A Man of
the People (1966), continue the narrative of the consequences of
British political and cultural imperialism in Nigeria before and after the
achievement of independence in 1960.
