After colonialism, Achebe wrote depictions of these aborigines, dethroning Western stereotypes and defining their own individualism and community …show more content…
Therefore “Things Fall Apart” is sensational not only it was the first attempt to explore and to encounter and conquer all the problems. Hence, Achebe has gone under avalanche disapproval from his peers for writing in English, particularly from Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who feels that language was the “most powerful vehicle” (Thiong’o 265), thus language and literature were taking us further and advance from ourselves to different selves, from our reality to different universes. In this way, how language was utilized to sustain the colonization and the indigenous culture’s language were destitute partially just because English.
However, Achebe argued that the statement above that only one African dialect could manifest the responsiveness of African people somehow disregard the truth of “linguistic plurality of modern African states” (Achebe 1989, 271). While this conflict might be risky to a few, Achebe can rise above the obstruction of an outside dialect as a method of indigenous social expression in Things Fall Apart, and in addition adjust the type of the novel to suit the way of life he is speaking …show more content…
Achebe indicates the silence of Ibo people are greatly display “the subaltern cannot speak” (Gayatri Spivak), the colonist were unable to speak their own language but to borrow the language of the colonizers. The way of life that Achebe speaks to is lost until the end of time. From being subjects of their own folks but then altered to the objects of their context and being explained in a foreign language and foreign way. This novel exemplifies the core of nativism and an announcement of tribal and racial recovery, his whole work spins around the profoundly hazardous problems of Africa now and then. He perceives the significance of wrecked history and attempt to restore the memories of the past. He considers to the formation of African first to rehabilitating the history and Igbo culture could share the common values which is the premise of identity of the African in pre-colonial period to the