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For the next couple of weeks we will take a -

look at two books by Chin—-

ua Achebe, the first of which is Things Fall Apart This is a simple but poig- nant and sometimes even explosive novel about 0— konkwo, a proud and impo-

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rtant man in Obi sociéty who is forced by his blind- ness into exile. When he returns he is unable to cope with the invasion of the White man who is re- pressing his society. Eventually he resorts to suicide as a result of his

too—rash actions against

them. The setting is,placed

“in Nigeria's Eastern Region

(Biafra) about the turn of the century. Despite(or may6~ be because of) the fact that this is a fictional account it provides-a wealth of i information about a world / which most Canadians know

at best peripherally. There

is no reference to the white man and the "great events"

in the outside world except

as they affect the Ibo tri— besman.

' In fact the plot is a tightly closed system_that slowly unveils a universe :unknown to western eyes, one which you eventually realize(and the realization is of the heart, not the intellect)we entirely shou— lder the blame for having been destroyed. And for the first time I have seen a tribal society is presen- ted as a real world inhab¥* ited by real people, not just a bunch of curiosities to be poked and prodded un-

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.Aside from its value in showing us'a world too little known to any but the most aware Canadian, _ Things Fall Apart is a lit: erary masterpiece in its own right.-It is one of the very few books that leavesf you with a sense of deep TWFﬁ troubling, troubling that results from your desire to know why-the-jeezus it had to end the way it did and yet yOu know that there was no other way. The des— truction of Okonkwo is the destruction of a society and in some certain sense the/ destruction of all of us. This book is well-wri—

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