Things Fall Apart

Okonkwo's fear was his father's shadow. The strongest man in Umuofia was running from a flute.

The yam festival, the kola nuts, the proverbs, Achebe built a world the reader lives in before it's taken.

Ikemefuna walked to his death calling him father. Okonkwo swung because he feared looking weak.

The Missionary sang a hymn that answered a question the clan hadn't asked. Conquest begins politely.

Nwoye found answers in the new church where the twins abandoned in the forest went. The outcasts knew.

He shot at the goddess's messenger and hit nothing. The book's gun is louder as a failure.

The District Commissioner's book title. The Pacific-at-the-end of an entire civilization.

Locusts arrived like a feast and everyone was happy. Achebe's irony never blinks.

Obierika thought about these things. The book's real hero is the man who questioned.

Carried out of it: read the proverbs first. They're the spine the empire snapped.