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What Are The Stereotypes In Things Fall Apart

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Things Fall Apart, another book by Chinua Achebe, can be seen as another response to Conrad’s Heart of darkness. In this book, we are introduced to the main protagonist Okonkwo and to the Igbo culture in Nigeria. His responds to Heart of Darkness by combating those stereotypes of Africans as savages, by introducing a culture that has an organizational structure, peaceful people and able of communicating in a sophisticated way. It also launches a direct attack to the colonizers who caused a great chao by using different symbols such as the use of locusts. Achebe’s book is against the stereotypes that white people have on the Africans. Achebe’s work supports his claim about Heart of Darkness as being racist and giving a false idea about the African
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