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Twenty-first century Africa is currently a continent of culturally diverse groups of people, many opposing governments, and fragmented identities due to its long history of colonization and the drastical changes following its independence. Accordingly, the study of post-colonial African literature cannot be complete without the study of Africa’s colonial past and the ideology behind a text. Chinua Achebe is one of the significant writers of African culture who in his novels aims to provide an erudite exegesis of the texts and introduce readers to important contextualizing historical and cultural perspectives it defines. His novels not only represent the history and culture of Africa, but also serve as a direct response to a whole canon of Eurocentric writings presenting Africans as inhuman savages. Particularly, in his Things Fall Apart Achebe paints a grim picture of the colonization of Nigeria by the British and the political turbulence following its colonization. The primary purpose of this paper is to shed light on Achebe’s various ways of representing the self-sufficiency of African nations with a strong sense of cultural identity, and the catastrophic changes in an African society brought along by colonialism, resulting in the distortion of its cultural identity.

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