summary: The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community, and addresses a particular problem of emergent Africa - the intrusion in the 1890s of colonial gobvernment into tribal Igbo society.
language: Igbo oral culture -> to English written culture
title: Things Fall Apart are Yeats’ words (poem “The Second Coming”) -> phrase from European modernist writer -> no rejection of european heritage of the literary canon, but transformation
or: the British Empire falling apart
theme: alienation, outsideness, foreignness -> translation from Igbo to English / “Africa has no culture” is not true
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