Why ‘Things Fall Apart’ is greatest African book – Pete Edochie 

Veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie has declared Chinua Achebe’s 1958 caller ‘Things Fall Apart’ arsenic the top African publication of all-time. 

Speaking successful a caller interrogation with TV3, Edochie explained that ‘Things Fall Apart’ is the top African publication ever written due to the fact that it tells the African story.

He stated that the publication wouldn’t person been arsenic fashionable arsenic it is if it were telling the communicative of the colonisers. 

He pointed retired that galore different African authors person besides made efforts successful telling African stories since ‘Things Fall Apart’ but nary is arsenic “strong” arsenic it.

“The crushed wherefore ‘Things Fall Apart’ is the top publication ever written connected the African continent is due to the fact that it is telling our ain story.

“If it had been telling the communicative of the White man, it won’t beryllium that popular. Many others person made efforts since past but not arsenic beardown arsenic ‘Things Fall Apart’,” helium said. 

He urged African writers and creatives to absorption connected telling African stories, stressing that it would beryllium their unsocial spot connected the planetary stage.