Key Facts 

• Full Title: Things Fall Apart
• Author: Chinua Achebe
• Time Setting: 1957
• Publication Date: 1958
• Genre: Novel / Social and Cultural Tragedy
• Setting: Igbo villages of pre-colonial Nigeria during the 1890s
• Climax: Okonkwo kills a British court messenger in rebellion
• Antagonists: Christian missionaries and British colonial officials, especially Reverend James Smith and the District Commissioner
• Narrative Point of View: Third-person omniscient narrator who observes both individual and social conflict.