A few weeks ago,Elba announced his movie, an adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, in which he will play the lead character, Okonkwo. Nigerians took to their various social media ...

PETE Edochie will take up his famous role as ‘Okonkwo,’ as Chinua Achebe’s all-time bestselling novel, ‘Things Fall Apart,’ goes to the stage. Sunday, June 15, 2025 Advertise With Us E-paper ...

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It would be hard to overstate how important Things Fall Apart is for modern African literature. And yet, like many works at the root of literary traditions, its achievements are easy to overlook ...

“Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”—W.B. Yeats,“The Second Coming ...

In “Things Fall Apart,” Okonkwo is shaped by his disgust of sloth, the vice that his own father happily embraced and which brings his family so much shame.

It is in season now; Okonkwo’s Inquest is a play inspired by Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and it is being staged in Lagos at the moment to commemorate the 55th Independence Anniversary of ...

The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe -- Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor -- Eternal sacred order versus ...

For those who have read Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is a fiercely ambitious and traditional Igbo warrior, known for his strength, bravery, and deep fear of weakness.

Chinua Achebe’s first novel “Things Fall Apart” is considered one of the greatest works of African literature. The 1958 novel follows Okonkwo, a respected warrior of the Umuofia tribe in what is now ...