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This paper discusses Achebe's work and how it reflects British imperialism in Africa during the 19th Century. Also under discussion was some of the impact that imperialism had on some of the African, Indian and Asian colonies that belonged to Great Britain. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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and early 1900s. While the integration of the white missionaries did bring some good things to tribes, such as sanitation, medical treatment and education, in Things Fall Apart, it is
implied that all such colonial integration was necessarily positive - in the case of Things Fall Apart, the integration forced one of the village leaders, Okonkwo, to his suicide, while
thoroughly wiping out most of the culture if the fictitious Ibo tribe. While the missionaries may have thought they did will in bringing everything from sanitation, to education, to the
"good" Christian religion to the tribes of Africa, imperialism did have its costs, and they werent all necessarily good ones. To start
with, Things Fall Apart is considered an "African Novel." And the African novel is a recording of the traumatic consequences of "the impact of western capitalistic colonialism on the traditional
values and institutions of the African peoples" (Quayson 117). While the novel does center on one mans attempt to deal with the changes that westernization brings, the book, in a
sense, also describes the struggles that many tribes were undergoing at the time of British imperialistic expansion. Although some African natives are attempting to recapture their culture and uniqueness, much
of it was wiped out during the 1800s and 1900s. Things Fall Apart is the story of Okonkwo, an ambitious
village man who is exiled from his Ibo tribal village because he beat his wife during a week in which physical violence was forbidden, and he killed, by accident, the
son who was doing the ritual dance of death at his fathers funeral. He is sent away from his village, his family and wealth taken from him, and his property
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