Igbo Culture In Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart Essay

The Merriam-Webster definition of culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time. Culture is what makes one place different from another. Without culture every place on earth would look exactly the same and there would be no differences. What kind of a world would earth be if everything everywhere was the exact same? In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe it explains how a long time ago white Christian missionaries believed that everyone should be like them and they decided to go to the Umuofia and Mbanta villages of the Igbo tribe in Nigeria, around 1900 and change the Igbo culture and beliefs of the innocent people. The traditions of the Igbo culture were important because they shaped the entire backbone of the culture around them and were the basis of how everyone lived. Also they were majorly affected by Western cultural imperialism by missionaries and force.

Every single culture ever has had certain traditions and customs that makes them unique. In the Igbo culture they also had many unique customs and traditions which were the backbone of the whole Igbo culture. Some of them were there

It gives an in depth view at all the negatives and positives. He goes into detail about the culture changes that the Igbo people have to go through and endure and either have to accept or deny. For some it was a great thing and for some it was the end of them. The ones who chose to adapt flourished and the ones who denied it perished. However, the traditions of the Igbo culture will always remain important because they made the Igbo culture what is was in Umuofia. Also the effects of the cultural imperialism of the British should never go unnoticed too because they had positive and negative impacts for everyone