Chinua Achebe s Things Fall Apart - 1974 Words

â€Å"Things Fall Apart† is a novel written by a Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe in 1958. The author belongs to African culture and for this reason most part of the novel reflects the value of African culture. Many European countries moved to Africa and many other regions of the world in the end of the 19th century where they inaugurated colonies. With the new developing idea of colonization, a number of villages of Nigeria especially those involved in Umuofia confronted new institutions and political structure established because of the surprising entrance of white crusaders. As a result of new-found change caused by the colonization Igbo culture extremely threatened and faced inferior form of justice by this transformation. Therefore, the†¦show more content†¦(Okereke, 2013) The atmosphere of injustice developed everywhere at the time that actually disturbed the lives of Igbo society. Achebe in this book claims that the white colonizers were responsible for bringing injustice in Igbo society as they oppressed Igbo society and cause mass destruction at the time. All the writings before Achebe’s â€Å"Things Fall Apart† had been write down by European writers regarding Africa and its people. In reality, most of the writings of European writers delivered a sense of Africans like state of uneducated and uncivilized people. With the intention of this, they observed themselves as superior, talented, and more educated people than the Africans. For this reason they determined to control over the lands of Africans with the aim to transform them their way of living and way they reflect their society and culture to make them more sophisticated and more civilized people as a whole. In addition, the notion of justice is different in different cultures, as every culture has its own particular principles of justice. Such principles of justice generate particular ethical values among people that actually impact the perception of the people regarding the meaning of the justice. For instance, in the ancient Greece justice was observed not as a source of equality but right proportion. However, in the book, â€Å"Things Falls Apart† the author appealed the readers towards the