Which Nigerian author wrote the 1958 landmark postcolonial novel 'Things Fall Apart', portraying the downfall of the Igbo warrior Okonkwo amid the arrival of British colonial administrators?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C. Chinua Achebe

  1. Step 1: Often hailed as the father of modern African literature in English, this author sought to restore authentic African perspectives counter to European colonial narratives.
  2. Step 2: Chinua Achebe took the novel's title from W.B. Yeats's poem 'The Second Coming' and chronicled traditional pre-colonial Igbo village life in Umuofia and its disruption by Christian missionaries and colonial authority.
Answer
Chinua Achebe
Why not the others: 'Wole Soyinka' Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and poet who became the first sub-Saharan African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986; 'Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o' Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan novelist and essayist famous for 'A Grain of Wheat' and championing African literature in indigenous languages; 'Ben Okri' Ben Okri is a Nigerian novelist who won the 1991 Booker Prize for his magical realist novel 'The Famished Road'.

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