Achebe, Chinua: 1930 -2013

Things Fall Apart, 1958 - Timeline

  • 1. Okonkwo becomes a respected warrior

    2. Ikemefuna comes to live with Okonkwo

    3. Ikemefuna is killed

    4. Okonkwo is exiled to Mbanta - Okonkwo's motherland. It was the origin of his mother's birth and the location of her grave

    5. Missionaries arrive

    6. Colonial rule spreads

    7. Okonkwo returns and the clan changes

    8. Final tragedy