Links for Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" Wonders of the African World . Companion Web site to PBS series by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. From his introduction: "Let's face it think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? Join me on the journey from Zanzibar to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great Zimbabwe, the slave coast of Guinea to the medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search of the lost wonders of the African world. Shall we begin?" For scholarly approaches to Achebe and African postcolonial literature, see Chinua Achebe An Overview , from Brown University, Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature An Overview , and Postcolonial Literature in Africa An Overview NPR's May 30, 1996 Talk of the Nation Book Club of the Air, discusses Things Fall Apart , with Abiola Irele, of Ohio State University. Real Audio File | |
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