Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) is not just a seminal work of African literature by the literary icon—it also serves as a profound metaphor for the current political turmoil in Nigeria.

Things Fall Apart is a classic novel written by Chinua Achebe in 1958. It is set in Africa and follows the life of Okonkwo as he watches his home being colonized by the British, and his life and ...

I remember the moment everything crumbled. A role I had worked tirelessly to build vanished, the dream life that I had relished fell away in an instant, and I was left standing in the wreckage of ...