The Death of African Identity Theme: Historical Identity In these heady days of seemingly daily advancement of culture and technology, the central debate of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart seems to have been answered. The advancement and the adoption of the new has superceded the desire to hold onto tradition. Around the world languages are disappearing and cultures becoming homogenized as people grasp at advancement, seizing onto Western beliefs and products. Things Fall Apart …showed first 75 words of 1400 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1400 total…adapt to the changing times, and the Igbo likewise do not react to the changes with the necessary action to salvage their unique indentity. Instead, they are co-opted by European indoctrination, and there is little chance that things will ever turn back their way. With Oknokwo’s death, there is no one to carry forth the totally undiluted identity of the Igbo. Things Fall Apart is Chinua Achebe’s elegy to this great, departed essence.