"Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," and Tunde Obadina's "The myths of Neo-Colonialism" both authors seem to discuss the disintegration of the Africa society in terms of Colonialism. "Chinua Achebe views seem to be from the personal experience as native himself of Nigeria, Africa while Tunde Obadina gives his views in terms of the African continent as a whole "Things Fall Apart", portrayed the complex society of the Ibo people as it come into contact with western, and allow his readers to see the simple dignity of traditional Africa village life in Umuofia, Nigeria. Achebe's novels seem to have many intriguing messages of the Ibo tribes in Umuofia, Nigeria. I believe that the author's goal was aimed primarily to allow his readers to see the impact of the colonialism and its affects of the Ibo tribe's tradition culture values cause anarchy and corruption among the people. Both authors Achebe and Obadina's shared similar views of the anarchy in Africa. Obadina take issues with the long-term effect of colonialism and the long term affects. The disintegration of African religious, economic systems, and culture have had a devastating effect o

My analysis of Achebe's short story seem to convey to his readers of the Ibo tribes in Umofia, Nigeria were to give his readers history of the disintegration of the society. While it was done in somewhat in and ambiguous perspective the readers were able to perceive the depiction by colonialism of the British. The key character Okonkwo was a prime example of how the Ibo tribe in Nigeria was stripped of their dignity and felt trapped. Some of the tribes were able to benefit from the colonialism. At the turn of the century and even today most of them are said to have a negative attitude. In Obadina's it states" blaming all of Africa's problems of Neo-Colonist strikes a cord with many educated African's at the west because of its historical humiliation and exploitation of their continent. The disintegrations of African's religions, economic systems and cultural had a devastating impact of the continent at large.

On a very personal note I think that while I do agree that colonialism brought much hardships to Africa. Exploding Africa natural resources however, the colonialism laid the seed of intellectual of material development in Africa.

My curiosity is inevitably peeked when I considered Chinua Achebe's" classic "Things Fall Apart." The title of this book was no doubt a direct significant of his views. After extensive reading and research I realize that the title itself, was taken from a poem from another nov

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