num_pages: 186
description: One of a series of fiction titles for schools. Okonkwo, a man of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria at the end of the last century, is a person of substance, character and promise, but he and his people are doomed to be destroyed - both from within the tribe and by the arrival of the white man.
language: English
title: Things Fall Apart
titlecomplete: Things Fall Apart
characters: Ezinma, Okonkwo, Nwoye, Ikemefuna
genres: Fiction, Historical, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Nigeria, Novels, Historical Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 357959
places: Africa, Nigeria
series: The African Trilogy
publisher: Heinemann Educational Books