Simon Gikandi’s essay “African Literature and the Colonial Factor” and how it applies to Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart.

1. In “African Literature and the Colonial Factor,” Simon Gikandi writes that “the political and cultural force of colonialism in Africa was so enduring that writers concerned with the nature of African society could not avoid the trauma and drama that accompanied the imposition of European rule on the continent” (380). Discuss Chinua Achebe’s formal and thematic engagement with the “trauma and drama” of colonial domination in Things Fall Apart.
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