How successful is Chinua Achebe in representing an image of Africa that "writes back" to the European coloniser?

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English

 

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June 27, 2014

 

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A much praised African classic "a great book, that bespeaks a great, brave, kind human spirit," first published in 1958, Things Fall Apart is an early narrative about the European colonization of Africa told from the point of view of the colonized people. Published on the eve of Nigerian independence in 1960 when Achebe was twenty eight Things fall apart helped reshape literature in the English-speaking world and with selling over 10 million copies in 45 languages, it poignantly evoked the early experience of colonialism by a tribal leader in Nigeria...
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For Soyinka , Things Fall Apart was "the first novel in English which spoke from the interior of an African character, rather than portraying the African as exotic, as the white man would see him". The novel represents almost a personification of the African people, it gives them a means of writing back by having an expression and an inner self that is portrayed the same way as an expression or an emotion from any "white man"...
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