Things Fall Apart Resources

Things Fall Apart Reading Schedule
for Monday, Sept. 9, read up to page 86
Tuesday, p. 115
Wednesday, 142
Thursday, 167
Friday, 197
Monday, Sept. 16, end of book, page 209.



Things Fall Apart online

Chinua Achebe biography

Chinua Achebe on Nigeria & Africa 50 years later (video)

Premium Times Nigeria (Nigerian newspaper online)
The Guardian (Nigerian newspaper online)

William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"  (poem)

Gender Role Test (Take the test once for yourself.  If you have time, take it again for Okonkwo).
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world . . . "

                        --from Yeats, "The Second Coming"