Title: Brilliant work by Africa's most important writer
Product review: Things Fall Apart is the sort of book that teaches you something different regardless of the number of times you read it. It's opened a lot of western (and indeed, some African) eyes, to the ancient traditions of Africans, which for political and economic reasons have long been denigrated by the western media. Things Fall Apart shows for all to see that in ancient African societies, there existed Order were the west spoke of Chaos, Poetry were the west spoke of 'disjointed, grunting sounds' eg in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' , and sophisticated political organization (as seen in the age-grade system, Umuofia's Council Of Elders and the ancient judicial system of the egwugwu), were the west reported 'savage barbarity of a kind not much higher than that of monkeys'
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