CULTURAL VALUES AND THEIR CLASHES IN THE NOVEL THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE

Abstract [English]

Integrating a number of people into one society and one system is easy for most of the societies around the world, bringing a set of principles, morality and culture with them to that society. Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart serves as the author’s exposition of the complex relationship between indigenous and Western societies, arguing that no culture is perfect and that both have their strong and weak elements. This paper focuses primarily on the life of the Igbo and how their traditional way of life was changed by colonialism midway through the book. This paper contributes to the history of the Igbo people from southeastern Nigeria, explaining their cultural preferences and the powerful effect of colonialism on their communities.