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Things Fall Apart

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Chinua Achebe, author

Canon Rationale

A core modern African novel, included for Igbo social world, colonial encounter, tragedy, oral tradition, English as literary medium, and postcolonial literary formation.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 37.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Things Fall Apart'.
  • museum record: Open Library, 'Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe', OL5335753M.

Audit Flags

community context required

Completion unit: read the full novel, with historical and Igbo cultural context tracked as supplemental support.

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