DISINTEGRATION OF INDIGENOUS CULTURE OF AFRICA IN THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE

Stories is the thing that hook up people. ‘Things Fall Apart' is testimony of this dictum. Chinua Achebe did exactly what the people of the suppressed world expected. Igbo people of Nigeria used to talk about a myth about why and how the god decided to make men born again but in a different form. The same myth also gave another lesson to him, there as a danger in relying on someone else to speak for you: the only person you can trust is you and your message will only be communicated accurately only if you speak with your own voices. Even though many writers has written about African People and their cultures it can never be something Achebe saw and wanted to say. This inspired him to write the novel ' Things Fall apart'. The setting itself is something he made up and imagined. The fictional group of Igbo villages called Umuofia. And through the character Okonkwo. Apart from all these nothing is idyllic, cruel customs, malnourished kids, etc. But culture and tradition was the only thing that held everyone together but the same thing that tore them apart