Race Discrimination in 'Things Fall Apart'

*Race discrimination means treating someone unfavourably.

*Racism is usually defined as views, practices and actions reflecting the brief that humanity is divided into distinct biological groups called race and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior.

*Racism and racial discrimination are often used to describe discrimination on an ethnic or cultural basis, independent of whether these differences are described as racial.

*Associated with race: based prejudice, violence, dislike, discrimination, or oppression.

*According to Achebe's greatest example of this binary logic is " He saw things as black and white. And black was evil. He spoke in his someone about sheep and goats and about wheat and tares. He believed in saying the prophetess of Baal".

*'Things Fall Apart', Achebe presents a different idea of African. They have families, religion, honours, and titles, music, economy, laws and court system, complicated farming techniques, a tradition of wise sayings and the art of conversation; on top of this, they successfully practice an unautocratic style of communal living that Western societies long for. Achebe presents some of the same images of shadow that a general and natural fear of literal darkness and solitude. By showing Africans as also fearful of darkness. Achebe is not meaning to say that Ekwefi is gullible or easily scared; he means to say that in dark isolation, fear overcomes one's understanding of truth and humanity. What Achebe suggests is recognizing Africans and this goes for all foreigners, including those of other nations, religious, genders, sexual inclinations, histories, economics back grounds, political status, and over all everyone alien to the self as fundamentally human with the multitude of complexities involved in that.

*Achebe's Criticism:

- "Black and White" thought: that it is based on stories read blind and alone " removed several degrees from reality."

*Achebe on the other hand comments:

- " it is better to be together than to be right or may be that unity is what's right."

*Okonkwo is a character with whom the reader is likely to understand the book- he is brutish, rude, scornful, proud and profoundly sexist- but in reading his story, one comes to sympathize with him at least a little, and one knows for granted that he is a person.

*Achebe characterizes Umuofia's women in the joys and tribulations of their motherhood and selects specific moments of their lives to represent some of the most meaningful, cultural and historical aspect of existence in Igbo community.