Thinking Activity " Things Fall Apart" Hello Readers, Welcome to the blog which is related with the Thinking Activity of African Literature. Here are some questions on Things Fall Apart. Students are requested to answer the questions in 300 words. 1. What is the historical context of Things Fall Apart? Things Fall Apart is set in 1890, during the early days of colonialism in Nigeria. Achebe depicts Igbo society in transition, from its first contact with the British colonialists to the growing dominance of British rule over the indigenous people. His decision to write Things Fall Apart in English is an important one. Achebe wanted this novel to respond to earlier colonial accounts of Africa; his choice of language was thus political. Unlike some later African authors who chose to revitalize native languages as a form of resistance to colonial culture, Achebe wanted to achieve cultural revitalization within and through English. In 1984, he founde