In this presentation you can find the symbols and culture of Igbo community. and how these all things Chinua Achebe portrays in Igbo culture and his novel 'Things Fall Apart'.
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Igbo Culture and Society in 'Things Fall Apart.'
1. Igbo Culture and Society in ‘Things Fall Apart.’
• Prepared by- Hitaxi Bhatt.
• Paper 14 - The African
Literature.
• Submitted To- Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
2. • What is Igbo Culture.?
Igbo culture are the customs,
practices and traditions of
the Igbo people of south-eastern
Nigeria. It comprises archaic
practices as well as new
concepts added into the Igbo
culture either by cultural
evolution or by outside
influence.
3. • Igbo Culture in ‘Things Fall Apart’
Chinua Achebe describes Igbo culture, which
encompasses polytheistic religion, father-son
inheritance, farming traditions, and belief in evil spirits.
Every major event that happens has some kind of
significance based on the Igbo culture and whatever
related aspect of it is being described.
4. • Igbo Culture and Symbols.
• Achebe portrays his Igbo culture and society that
flourished on the pillars of art, music, and poetry.
• Igbo music- is very important in Igbo culture-different
instrument on different occasion.
• Igbo chi- There are numbers of god – to keep their life
happy and they obey them.
• Kola nut- suggest hospitality- offers when priest came.
• Cowry shell- money used in Africa
25 bags – bride price – in engenment.
5. • Traditional v/s Change
•The change – missionaries- interference into society.
•Send missionaries – To install religion- encourages peace-
beginning stage of colonization.
• change the belief of tribe- control over native more easily.
•Claim that they have noble purpose Because there are so many
superstition And oracle in that
They believe.
6. •Okonkwo is tragic hero
•Okonkwo ‘s tragedy is the greatest example of disaster that
takes place with the merger of the east and the west. He
can’t bear the yoke of colonization and he hangs himself.
• Irony of the fate he is not given proper burial because
committing suicide is considered a sin in the Igbo Culture.
7. •It is a society that just needed how to change with the
changing times.
• In my opinion it was not the Missionaries but the inner conflict
in the Igbo culture that dug its grave.
•When the roots of a culture that is its people are fragile, nothing
can prevent its fall.
