Postcolonial Reading of Chinua Achebe by Rameesa Ameer

This article examines how Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is a postcolonial narrative that explores the effects of western capital-colonialism on African people's traditional values and religious institutions. The novel chronicles the painful effects of western capital-colonialism on African people's traditional values and religious institutions, and the protagonist, Okonkwo, fails to return his people to the shared culture they formerly had. It also examines how the novel also exposes the deception of European books that portray Africans as savages and explores the repercussions of European colonisation on Igbo society from an African perspective. The article also criticizes the deception of European books that portray Africans as savages and explores the repercussions of European colonisation on Igbo society from an African perspective.