Kwara State University
Saeedat ALIYU
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Department: Linguistics African and European Languages
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| 1 | Re-reading Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in the context of African environmentalism. |
Achebe's classic novel, Things Fall Apart (1958) is the first African novel to portray Igbo culture and give a detailed history of pre-colonial and colonial incursion into Africa. It is the position of this essay that as the novel provides insights into the culture, politics, economy and history of pre-colonial and colonial periods, it would also offer a reading of the environmental perspectives of these periods. This essay employs both sociological and environmental justice approaches in its investigation of the environmental perspectives depicted in Things Fall Apart. This dual approach allows for the exploration of a strategy that African writers engage in to depict a complementary relationship between humans and the environment wherein both parties benefit. The essay concludes that the environmentalism that emerges from the analysis indicates an awareness of a connectedness between all components of the biosphere. This informs the symbiotic relationship between man/woman and the environment and this is central to achieving environmental sustainability. Keywords: Things Fall Apart, Achebe, African culture, environmentalism, symbiosis, social consciousness. | Bodunde, C.A. and Aliyu, S.B. | Vol. 12-13 | Journal of English Studies, JES. Department of English and Linguistics, Thamassat University, Thailand. ISSN: 1865-8646 | 2017-01-01 | ||