Facts about Things Fall Apart

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   Okonkwo's clan in Things Fall Apart is the Umuofia, a fictional Igbo village community in southeastern Nigeria.

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   Achebe's Things Fall Apart is widely taught in African literature courses and has been translated into more than 50 languages.

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   Its title comes from W.B. Yeats's 1919 poem The Second Coming, which contains the line 'things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

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   Written in English, Things Fall Apart explores the impact of British colonialism and Christian missionary activity on traditional Igbo society in Nigeria.

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   The novel's protagonist Okonkwo commits suicide by hanging himself, a death method considered deeply shameful in Igbo culture and reflecting his complete social destruction.

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   Chinua Achebe published Things Fall Apart in 1958, and the novel has since sold over 12 million copies worldwide.

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