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Things Fall Apart (African Writers Series: Expanded Edition with Notes) by Chinua Achebe, Simon Gikandi (Editor), Don Ohadike (Introduction), Ughe Okeche (Illustrator), Priscilla Hinckley (Illustrator) Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 0-435-90525-2 / 0435905252 ISBN-13: 978-0-435-90525-5 / 9780435905255 This expanded edition of Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in an Igbo village. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought by the British conquest of Nigeria. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's ch |