Open Book | Diana Evans
Based on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
As London's Southbank Centre prepares to stage a day-long live reading of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's epoch-defining African novel Things Fall Apart, we'll be talking to the organisers about the joys and challenges of bringing the work to life.
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- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 27'29''
- Broadcast date: 2018
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
- Literary Resource
Witness History | Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
In 1958 Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe published his first book, it would revolutionise African culture and was the beginning of a whole new genre of world literature.
Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament
Zina Saro-Wiwa explores the legacy of Africa's first great post-colonial novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.