Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Achebe, Chinua. Conversations with Chinua Achebe, ed. Bernth Lindfors. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

———. Home and Exile. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Ezenwa-Ohaeto. Chinua Achebe: A Biography. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Gikandi, Simon. Reading Chinua Achebe: Language & Ideology in Fiction. Nairobi, Kenya: Heinemann Kenya, 1991.

Iyasere, Solomon O., ed. Understanding Things Fall Apart: Selected Essays and Criticism. Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing, 1998.

Killam, G. D. The Writings of Chinua Achebe. London: Heinemann Educational, 1977.

Okoye, Emmanuel Meziemadu. The Traditional Religion and its Encounter with Christianity in Achebe’s Novels. New York: Peter Lang, 1987.

Okpewho, Isidore. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Casebook. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Wren, Robert M. Achebe’s World: The Historical and Cultural Context of the Novels of Chinua Achebe. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1980.

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