LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Ibo
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Detailed explanation-1: -Things Fall Apart provides readers with an insight of Igbo society right before the white missionaries’ invasion on their land. The invasion of the colonising force threatens to change almost every aspect of Igbo society; from religion, traditional gender roles and relations, family structure to trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Things Fall Apart, which is set in Nigeria in the early 1900s, Chinua Achebe describes Igbo culture, which encompasses polytheistic religion, father-son inheritance, farming traditions, and belief in evil spirits.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fall Apart’ portrays how Igbo –a community known for its cultural richness is destabilised by the advent of British colonialists and European Christian missionaries. The focus is on the loss of customs, rituals and cultural pride of the indigenous people, replaced by European value systems, ideas and traditions.
Detailed explanation-4: -The colonizers were smarter in altering the Igbo traditions. For instance, the system of the leadership of the clan or tribe has been stopped and the worship and sacrifice to unidentified gods were replaced by the Christian religion.