Slow Bullets: The Trajectory of Tragedy
Reviewing Chinua Achebe’s Classic Novel of Cultural Collision, ‘Things Fall Apart’
If there’s one thing Okonkwo refuses to be it’s like his father. Idle, unambitious, frequently drunk, and indebted to his entire village, Unoka would rather play his flute than farm the yams that will fill his stores or pay back his innumerable loans.
By the start of Chinua Achebe’s classic historical novel, Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo has surpassed his f…
