Things Fall Apart

Literature Easy 10 words1 plays

A basket of yams sits beside a carved ceremonial stool in a village clearing.
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  • ANCESTOR
  • CHANGE
  • CLAN
  • COLONIALISM
  • HARVEST
  • MISSIONARY
  • PROVERB
  • TRADITION
  • WRESTLING
  • YAMS

In a Nigerian clan built on yams and proverbs, a man's standing rests on tradition. Missionaries arrive and reorder the harvest calendar, the rites owed to ancestors, and the authority the clan once held. Chinua Achebe's novel weighs what a community gains and loses when an old order gives way.

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