Daunt Books

One of the grand masters of post-colonial, African fiction, Chinua Achebe's novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the 'strong man' of a small Nigerian village. The story concerns Okonkwo's fall from stature within the tribe and the cultural destruction of his village by European missionaries. Wole Soyinka described Achebe's work as, 'The first novel in English which spoke from the interior of an African character, rather than portraying the African as exotic, as the white man would see him.'

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