Proverbs

On Speech and Gender Relations in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

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“Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten,” says the narrator of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (TFA). Here is the place of speech (and its absence) in Umuofia, the fictional Igbo community where TFA is set, since conversation is the art of […]