Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Resources:
Brief biography of Chinua Achebe from biography.com
Chronology from Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations
Media:
PODCASTS:
"Manthia Diawara on Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'" from Think About It with Uli Baer
Close Read Podcast episodes: Part 1, Parts 2 & 3, Q&A Episode
"Episode 148 - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Bonus Episode)" from Overdue
"ReLIT: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe" from LIT Society
VIDEO:
"If One Finger Brought Oil - Things Fall Apart Part 1: Crash Course Literature 208" from CrashCourse
"Things Fall Apart, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 209" from CrashCourse
"Achebe Discusses Africa 50 Years After 'Things Fall Apart'" from PBS NewsHour
"Chinua Achebe Interview (1964)" from AfroMarxist
"Chinua Achebe: 1930-2013" from Brown University
Online Articles:
"Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction No. 139" by Jerome Brooks for The Paris Review
"The Amazing Story Behind Things Fall Apart" by David Haglund for Slate
"The Art of Conversation: Proverbs in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart" by Gerald Adewole for Republic
"A Vigorous, Quiet Revolt: Things Fall Apart At Fifty" by Howard W. French for The Nation
Critical Articles:
"Achebe's Sense of an Ending: History and Tragedy in Things Fall Apart" - Richard Begam
"Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Culture" - Simon Gikandi
"Chinua Achebe's Blue Notes: Toward a Critical Recording of Things Fall Apart's Blues and Jazz Sensibility" - Christopher N. Okonkwo
"Chinua Achebe Writing Culture: Representations of Gender and Tradition in Things Fall Apart" - Kwadwo Osei-Nyame
"Culture in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart" - Diana Akers Rhoads
"How Flexible is My Moral Code?" from Questions of Character - Joseph L Badaracco Jr
"Making Use of the Past in Things Fall Apart" - Oliver Lovesey
"A Mouth with Which to Tell the Story: Silence, Violence, and Speech in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart" - Joseph R. Slaughter
"The Plight of A Hero in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart" - Patrick C. Nnoromele
"Structure and Significance in Achebe's Things Fall Apart" - Emmanuel Obiechina