1. Your whole view and understanding of tribal Africa will change after reading this amazing book.
Things Fall Apart
Ms. Susa

2. My Presentation Will Address:
-The book
-The author
-The themes
-My favorite parts of the book
-Who will want to read the book
-Where and how you can buy

3. You will read what you won’t read in text books.

4. Okonkwo
Strong
Wrestler
Hard-working
Wives
Property

5. The Ibo People Rich in - tradition - culture
An established justice system

6. Author: Chinua Achebe From Nigeria
Tells a fictional story of real events during colonization.

7. Themes: When cultures collide, it usually doesn’t go well for one.
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

8. Theme: Cultural “war” can be peaceable and unrecognizable
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart” (page 176).

9. “All their customs are upside-down
“All their customs are upside-down. They do not decide bride-price as we do, with sticks. They haggle and bargain as if they were buying a goat or a cow in the market” (p. 73).

10. Egwugwu Ceremony

11. Ogbanje Child

12. Hollywood versus history

13. Amazon Prime $10.69 Where to find
This book is recommended for anyone who knows there’s more to history than what has been written in our history books.