In 1958, while working for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company, Achebe published his first novel, Things Fall Apart. The novel tells of and Ibo man whose personal life is ruined as a result of colonial pressures. This was the first of three novels that Achebe wrote to explore the

Flashback- A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative. An example of foreshadowing in Things Fall Apart is when Okonkwo has flashbacks of his father.

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