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Things Fall ApartText Overview

We will read Things Fall Apart and related texts. The titles, authors, and locations of these texts are indicated in the Unit Text List.

Core

  • Tradebook
    • Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, Penguin Random House, 1994
  • Unit Reader
    • Excerpts from “An African Voice,” Katie Bacon, The Atlantic Monthly Group, 2000
    • “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats, Public Domain, 1919
  • Digital Access
    • “Art Historian Cécile Fromont Uncovers Kongo’s Christian Visual Culture,” Mike Cummings, YaleNews
    • “Christianity’s African Roots,” Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Ebony
    • “Igbo Culture and History,” Don Ohadike, 1994
    • “Paintings Show the Casual Violence of Colonial Masters,” Eliza Anyangwe, CNN
    • “The Colonial Era (1882–1960),” Harvard Divinity School
    • “What Is Colonialism? A History of Violence, Control and Exploitation,” Jamila Osman, Teen Vogue, 2017

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