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Imperialism In Things Fall Apart

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In the book, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, author of this book, believes that the Europeans coming to Africa to create imperialism, which turned Africa’s land to fall apart and make the lands rituals and beliefs become destroyed. He supports this claim by first showing all of the things that the Europeans forced the natives to do and believe in certain things that the Europeans believed. For example, the Europeans force the Christian beliefs in Umuofia, by building a church (chapter sixteen, page 143) and capturing people (chapter sixteen, page 147). The Europeans did not write that because then it would make them sound bad. Then, the author describes having the natives suffer, by imprisoning, capturing, and starving people. The Europeans

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