I was one of those strange beings jumping up and down on the river bank, making horrid faces . . . That is when I realised that stories are not innocent."THINGS Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe is a classic novel by one of Africa's foremost literary gurus, which chronicles the clash of cultures and belief systems as colonialism entrenched itself in Africa.
The book was recognised as one of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century in an initiative organised by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, mainly because of its pioneering exploration of the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives on the continent.
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