5/26/2023 0 Comments Achebe booksMoreover, despite writing to protest racist portraits of Africa as the heart of darkness, Achebe always placed himself as an artist, as an inheritor of the great traditions of western modernism. I went out of my way to gather all the negative things, to describe them as I think they were - good and bad. As Achebe said in an interview, he was determined not to "make this story look nicer than it was. He shows its superstitions and cruelties and makes Okonkwo a complex human being, not a saintly martyr. But what makes Things Fall Apart aesthetically and intellectually memorable, as well as politically important, is Achebe's refusal to simplify or romanticise Ibo culture. Achebe's protagonist, the "strong man" Okonkwo, is a tragic hero whose death represents the destruction of Ibo culture through the coming of Christian missionaries and British law.
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