4 Season
45 Episode
Crash Course Literature - Season 2 Episode 8 If One Finger Brought Oil - Things Fall Apart Part 1
In which John Green teaches you about Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart. You'll learn about Igboland, a region in modern-day Nigeria, prior to the arrival of the British Empire. Achebe tells the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo villager who has worked his way up from life as a sharecropped and become a respected leader in his community. Okonkwo has a tragic fall and is exiled. And then the trouble starts. British missionaries arrive and change everything. Things Fall Apart has a lot to say about colonization and even something to say about decolonization.
- Year: 2018
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: YouTube
- Keyword: poetry, literature, romance, books, novel
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- Cast: John Green