The novel Things Fall Apart (TFA) (1958) is written by the late Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
who was a Nigerian author. The setting of the novel is in the outskirts of Nigeria in a small
fictional village, Umuofia just before the arrival of white missionaries into their land. Due to
the unexpected arrival of white missionaries in Umuofia, the villagers do not know how to
react to the sudden cultural changes that the missionaries threaten to change with their new
political structure and institutions. Hence, this essay aims at analyzing the effects of European
colonisation on Igbo culture.