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Things Fall Apart is a great book
on how the Europeans come to Nigeria and try to Imperialize the Ibo (Igbo) Tribe. It was done under the bases of Econonomy,
Politics, Exploratory, Idealogically, and most of all Religiously. The Europeans however did succeed in many ways with their
intentions of Imperialism. The Ibo Tribe saw some as good and some as bad.
This novel was written by Chinua Achebe and its a Ficton book. His very successful novel
Things Fall Apart was based off of the poem that was written by William Butler Yeats called "The Second Coming"
in 1921. Achebe did not publish this book until 1958. Its sold over 10 millon copies and in over 50 languages.
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