Tradition, Culture, and the Effects of Colonialism in Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart presents many issues that come along with colonialism. In Things Fall Apart, culture and tradition were challenged through the missionaries coming in to change the Igbo way of life. The Igbo people were beginning to question their values and traditions, so they quickly accepted these new European ways. Although Things Fall Apart is fictional, it is based upon true events which Achebe is trying to record to remind Nigerians of the past and what their culture once looked like