Things Fall Apart
By Achebe Chinua 

This book tells the story of Okonkwo, a leader of the Igbo tribe of Nigeria. His family and his tribal community described in the beginning of the book have formed a sustainable culture which existed for hundreds of years. Once British colonialists move into the area bring new values and laws, the old tribal system starts to fall apart.

"I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf delivered them" -Achebe Chinua (from Morning Yet on Creation Day, 1975)

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