Creativity: What Inspired Chinua Achebe to write the novel 'Things fall Apart'

Chinua Achebe is one of Africa's most influential contemporary writers. His first novel, Things Fall Apart, is an early narrative about the European colonization of Africa told from the point of view of the colonized people. Published in 1958, the novel recounts the life of the warrior and village hero Okonkwo, and describes the arrival of white missionaries to his Igbo village and their impact on African life and society at the end of the nineteenth century.

Through his writing, Achebe counters images of African societies and peoples as they are represented within the Western literary tradition and reclaims his own and his people's history.

Another portion of his motivation to write the novel Things Fall Apart was ascribed to his desire to highlight the voice of indigenous true African identity. Achebe recognized that the post- colonial condition of Africa demanded the emergence of an influential voice which he made happen in writing.  The traditional voice in African literature was driven by European visions of what Africa was.  The "African savage" and the notion that Africans were "uncivilized" in village life were aspects of what inspired one of Africa’s best to figure something new.

Chinua Achebe was great in his field, he was a legend and that’s why you should focus on something and build great walls with tiny inspirational whispers.