.The,Cadre‘vNovember 19, 1974, page 14 
     
    
   
   
    
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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- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Airican Awakening 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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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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     they never existed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     .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— 
     
    
   
   
    
     . tten. and very timely in a 
     
    
   
   
    
     world where each of us is 
     
     desperate to find his roots 
     
     and to answer the question 
     
    
   
   
    
     :"how did we ever get into 
     
    
   
   
    
     this:mess?" It is well- 
     
     worth putting on your rea- 
     
     ding list. 3 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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