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