The Outstanding Publicizing of the Sense of Dislocation, Alienation and Remoteness of the Natives from Their Ancestral Culture by Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”

Abstract

The novel "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe is the document that displays the cultural detachment of Igbo society in the result of British colonialism. The novel apotheosises the confrontation and mismatch between conventional and long-established Igbo values and the obtruded Western culture, giving rise to a breakdown of Igbo identity and clique. Through Okonkwo, the proponent and prime mover, Achebe limns and delineates the diminution of cultural legacy and patrimony, loss of established ways, heritage, rituals and the complexities     of cultural adjustment, absorption and assimilation. The novel evaluates the pernicious ramification of white man’s colonialism on indigenous cultures, divulging the expected rigidity between customary and modern, conventional and contemporary, ancestral and advanced historic and current, old-fashioned and up-to-date tradition and modernity.