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Things Fall Apart is Chinua Achebe’s first novel and was published in 1958, a time often called the Nigerian Renaissance because in that period a large number of very strong Nigerian writers began to create a powerful new literature that drew on the traditional oral literature, European literature, and the changing times in Nigeria and in Africa at large. Writers as varied as Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka developed in the context of the ideas …

…administrator who has come to arrest Okonkwo to bury him. At this point the book switches to the point of the Commissioner. He feels vaguely impressed by the incident and decides that it would be worth including in his memoirs—perhaps a full page, perhaps only a paragraph, since there was already so much to include. He plans, after much thought, to call the book: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.