Yet Achebe feels that Cary, along with other Western writers such as Joseph Conrad, misunderstood Africa. Cary worked in Nigeria as a colonial administrator and was sympathetic to the Nigerian people. Unless Africans could tell their side of their story, Achebe believed that the African experience would forever be "mistold," even by such well-meaning authors as Joyce Cary in Mister Johnson. When Things Fall Apart was first published, Achebe announced that one of his purposes was to present a complex, dynamic society to a Western audience who perceived African society as primitive, simple, and backward. This ominous tone gradually emerges in Things Fall Apart as an intrusive religious presence and an insensitive government together cause the traditional Umuofian world to fall apart.
In "The Second Coming," Yeats evokes the anti-Christ leading an anarchic world to destruction. Because of internal weaknesses within the native structure and the divided nature of Igbo society, the community of Umuofia in this novel is unable to withstand the tidal wave of foreign religion, commerce, technology, and government. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe illustrates this vision by showing us what happened in the Igbo society of Nigeria at the time of its colonization by the British. In this poem - ironically, a product of European thought - Yeats describes an apocalyptic vision in which the world collapses into anarchy because of an internal flaw in humanity. Things fall apart the center cannot hold Yeats, an Irish poet, essayist, and dramatist: The novel takes its title from a verse in the poem "The Second Coming" by W. Teachers in high schools, colleges, and graduate schools use the novel as a textbook in many types of classes - from history and social studies to comparative literature and anthropology. The novel has been adapted for productions on the stage, on the radio, and on television.
Millions of copies have been sold around the world in its many translations.
Although the novel was first published in 1958 - two years before Nigeria achieved its independence - thousands of copies are still sold every year in the United States alone. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is probably the most authentic narrative ever written about life in Nigeria at the turn of the twentieth century.
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