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African Literature: Things Fall Apart

African Literature: Things Fall Apart. By Jessica Low. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) THE SECOND COMING.

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African Literature: Things Fall Apart

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  1. African Literature: Things Fall Apart By Jessica Low

  2. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)THE SECOND COMING • Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;    The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passionate intensity. •     Surely some revelation is at hand;    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi    Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it    Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. •     The darkness drops again but now I know    That twenty centuries of stony sleep    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  3. Chinua Achebe • Born Nov. 16, 1930 as Albert ChinụalụmọgụAchebe. • a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. • The style of Achebe's fiction draws heavily on the oral tradition of the Igbo people.He weaves folk tales into the fabric of his stories, illuminating community values in both the content and the form of the storytelling.

  4. Things Fall Apart • Published in 1958 • The novel depicts the life of Okonkwo, a leader and local wrestling champion in Umuofia—one of a fictional group of nine villages in Nigeria, inhabited by the Igbo people (archaically, and in the novel, "Ibo"). It focuses on his family and personal history, the customs and society of the Igbo, and the influence of British colonialism and Christian missionaries on the Igbo community during the late nineteenth century.

  5. Most of the story takes place in the village of Umuofia, located west of the actual city of Onitsha, on the east bank of the Niger River in Nigeria. The events of the novel unfold in the 1890s.[2] The culture depicted, that of the Igbo people, is similar to that of Achebe's birthplace of Ogidi, where Igbo-speaking people lived together in groups of independent villages ruled by titled elders. The customs described in the novel mirror those of the actual Onitsha people, who lived near Ogidi, and with whom Achebe was familiar.

  6. Nigerian Igbo Culture • In traditionally patriarchal, Igbo society, the most masculine men take numerous wives, and women are beaten regularly. • The Igbo are famous for their masquerade dances, the masks being some of the most intricate in all of Africa. • The Igbo killed twins when they were born because they thought that they were unnatural.

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