CONTEXT IN TFA

The European system of colonization so profoundly failed to see human beings as human beings that it wrought destruction in AFrica and across the world. Achebe asks us to imaging the world and the people in it with more complexity and they aske us the big questions. The kinds that may not have easy answers but are still worth pursuing. As achebe said later in his life, “Igbo people say if you want to see it well you must not stand in one place”. Gave an indigene perspective but because he was a true convert, he was able to write and incorporate the perspective of those who were converting into Christianity - tapping into those who were loyal to tradition, and those who were osu’s - outcasts to the community.

Why would Achebe choose to set his novel prior to and during the arrival of the colonial administration as opposed to during the context of composition?

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