DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2021.v09i01.002

Pages: 6-9

Some Euro-centric writers such as Joseph Conrad and Joyce Cary considered African people as savages respectively in Heart of Darkness and Mister Johnson. Chinua Achebe published Things Fall Apart (1958) to tell about Africa and African cultures and civilization. This article pinpoints the attitudes of Okonkwo who stands as a hero who is in quest for personal achievements. However, in his struggle against colonization, Okonkwo makes many flaws and encounters obstacles that lead him to fail. This failure facilitates the settlement of colonial schools in the Umuofia. Hence the shift of the children from their traditional beliefs to the new religion.