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Achebe: The English Presence In "Things Fall Apart"

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...is one of the great works of African literature, or of literature anywhere. It draws a fine portrait of a particular culture in a particular time and place, and how outside influences worked to change that culture. This paper answers several questions about the novel.
Discussion
There is a substantial body of literature that analyzes this particular novel because of its intimate portrait of Igbo culture. However, we should remember that this is a work of fiction, not a travelogue, and resist the assumption that everything Achebe says is fact. We should also guard against the tendency to judge the Igbo by our own standards; they have a vibrant, well-organized and deeply spiritual culture, but one which most Westerners would consider primitive, and therefore probably less important than their own. Certainly the English who came to "civilize" the savages would not have done so if they had believed that the Igbo culture was a viable one.
The first point we want to consider is how...

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