things fall apart background

Question 1

chinua achebe

Answer 1

• born in 1930 in Nigeria and died in 2013
• sought to educate fellow Nigerians on their culture and history
• came from a Christian background
• moved to the US during the Nigerian civil war and stayed due to conflicts and corruption

Question 2

achebe style

Answer 2

formal european style with african story telling

with traditional proverbs, folktales, and idioms

Question 3

social novelist

Answer 3

trying to inspire change through literature

Question 4

Things Fall Apart

Answer 4

addresses conflict between Ibo and british, but told from a Africans pint of view to show the tradition and civilized, intelligent society of the ibo

Question 5

Nigeria

Answer 5

split by the Niger river with three main parts and three main ethnic groups, the Yourba in the west, the Hausa-Fulani in the north and the Ibo in the east
center of European slave trade and colonized by Great Britian
independence in 1914

Question 6

Ibo

Answer 6

tropical rainforest and subsistance farming
patriarchal and based on male linage
social mobility with earned titles with value placed on individual achievement and hospitality

Question 7

Chukwo

Answer 7

the creator god/supreme god
revealed through oracles
each clan, village, household had protective ancestral spirits

Question 8

Chi

Answer 8

personal guardian spirit affects one’s destiny and influenced through actions and rituals

Question 9

Egwugwo

Answer 9

masked ancertral spirits of the clan who appear during certain rituals