Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a story about personal beliefs and customs, but also a story about conflict. There is a struggle between the Igbo family, culture and religion, all of which are caused by a difference in personal beliefs and customs between the Igbo and the British. There are also strong opinions about the main character, Okonkwo. We then discover the views of his village, Umuofia. We see how things break down when these beliefs and customs are confronted with those of the white missionaries. The author's full name is Albert Chinualumogu Achebe also known as Chinua, he was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. It is a product of indigenous and European culture. This has a great effect on the telling of the story. He attended Government College, Umuahia from 1944 to 1947 and University College, Ibadan from 1948 to 1953. He then earned a BA from the University of London in 1953 and studied broadcasting at the British Broadcasting Corp. in London in 1956. He joined the Biafran Ministry. Information and represented Biafra as a diplomat. Since then, he has taught at universities in Nigeria, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart partly in response to what he saw as inaccurate characterizations of Africa and Africans by British authors. The book was published in 1958, when he was 28 years old. It was a great success and sold over 2,000,000 copies and was translated into thirty languages. He wrote a total of fifteen different books during his life. He became a political activist in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Thirty years ago, Chinua Achebe was one of the founders of this new literary style, and over the years many critics have came to consider him as the best of Nigerian novelists. But his success is not limited to his continent. He is considered by many to be one of the best novelists currently writing in the English language. Over the past several decades, he has held a succession of teaching positions, including professorship at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. In Thing Fall Apart, we witness the beginning of the story between Okonkwo and his father, Unoka. "Okonkwo was governed by a single passion: to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness in the middle of a paper...they had let the other messenger escape. They had broken into tumult instead of action” (Achebe 205). Everything he lived for and believed in was going to be taken away by the white men. He didn't want that to happen, so he did. is committed suicide Yet this is ironic because in doing so he was committing an act considered one of the worst actions a member can commit in Igbo society. Okonkwo's personal beliefs were strong and how much they mattered to him Beliefs, both personal and those of the society a person is born into, play a major role in their life This story is an example of this happening. when these beliefs are removed and others are imposed on a person. Everyone needs to believe in something, and things fall apart when they no longer can. When he tells the story with understanding and personal experiences in both cultures. He does not describe African culture and its beliefs as barbaric. It simply tells things as they are and how things happened. It's the same with white men. Chinua Achebe realized..