Things Fall Apart is a book, which has not only consolidated the foundations of Anglophone African literature but has also opened a new page in the study of African peoples and culture. HRM Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe made this known at the recent launch of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Illustrated at Terrakulture, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The Obi of Onitsha observed that Things Fall Apart continues to appeal to people of various generations and backgrounds both as pleasurable reading and a cleverly woven tapestry of history, anthropology and creative writing.

Said the royal father “ Not every novelist is fortunate enough to receive the kind of attention Achebe and his maiden novel have. The celebrations that greeted the novel’s golden jubilee in 2008 were well deserved for a highly original and imaginative author and his path finding work. The relevance of this novel is however not located in the past as the message remains significant in the present where colonization lives on in many guises.”

Obi described himself as a small masquerade while Chinua Achebe is a big masquerade and the name Achebe has helped him to be treated specially as people always thought that he was Chinua Achebe.
Bankole Olayebi, publisher of the book disclosed how long and ardous the story of the book was. He disclosed how ten years ago it struck him that nothing has been done on the illustration.

His words “ I felt that we should celebrate and see how we can do an illustrated edition of the great book. He commended the late Peter Are for his immense contribution towards the publication of the book.

Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi, who reviewed the book described Things Fall Apart as a landmark novel written by Achebe at a young age of 28. “ It is indeed a great feat 50 years on, the world of literature has not given up in dissecting, re-inventing and re-kindling the spart which the great effort ignited in the annals of African, nay world literary creativity”

Gbadmosi noted further that Achebe’s effort stands in the hallowed world of a dramatic form attesting to valiant efforts years ago of the TV drama series entitled Things Fall Apart. His words “ It is a worthwhile effort to bring to us visually a world that was once a statement of our being, isolated and unpolluted, a nostalgic sociological haven suffused with elementary social norms and where gods, chi and the elders condition our existence.”

Meanwhile Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka blamed the leadership for the social, political and economic problems in the country. The literary icon observed metaphorically that things have fallen apart in the country due to internally generated colonialism. According to him, “ Things have fallen apart all around us due to people who happen to represent the experiences of the internally colonized by a bunch of reprobates in the country.

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