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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe tells the story of the people of Umuofia on the Niger River. Beneath the story of Okonkwo lies a history and tradition never recorded

In 1958, African writer Chinua Achebe brought African culture to the US with his novel "Things Fall Apart." This year, the novel celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Things Fall Apart reads, in part, like a passionate letter from Achebe to his beloved Ibo culture.

Okonkwo, a well known wrestler, warrior, titled man, farmer and respected elder of the community, is the tragic hero in this African literary classic by Chinua Achebe.

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Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" in 1920, while the world was at once recovering from the carnage of World War I and warily monitoring the rise of fascism and communism.

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