Introduction
First sentence: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe pens down an interesting struggle between the African religious system and the Christian approach to religion: he accomplishes these and other themes in this book and his other literary work (Lakshmi, 2016).
Sentences 2 to 4: Achebe labors to portray the true African religion. The practices encoded in cultural rites, poetry and other elements of life imbued the system with beauty and wondrous majesty until the coming of the westerners. The burden of the book, besides other themes, is to illustrate how the infiltration of the Igbo community by the westerners led to the ultimate collapse of the perfectly knit religion (Asamoah-Gyadu, 2010). Had the westerners not infiltrated the African traditional religious system it would still be standing today in its original form.
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Thesis statement: Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart narrates the final collapse of Igbo society due to the arrival of Westerner cultural. Achebe illustrates that before the Westerner entered Africa, the Igbos “had a philosophy of great depth and value and beauty, that they had poetry and, above all, they had dignity” (Stratton, 1994). The arrival of Western cultural gradually collapsed the Igbo society due to the infiltration of the Christian missionaries who introduced new ideas and undermined the local belief system. Achebe illustrates the final surrender of the Igbo cultural by symbolizing the suicide of its great warrior, Okonkwo, that was preceded by an increasingly aggressive challenge to its local religion and support.
African Traditional Religious System
Traditional African Religion in Things Fall Apart ( Achebe, 2010 )
Identify the basis of the traditional African Religious System (Asamoah-Gyadu, 2010).
Underpin the impacts of deviating from the established norm (Achebe, 2010; Asamoah-Gyadu, 2010).
How this system was different from the westerner’s religious system
Religious Transformations
Transformation in the Traditional African Religious System as depicted in Things Fall apart (Achebe, 2010)
Identify the strategies used by the Westerners to infiltrate the Traditional Africa Religion (Asamoah-Gyadu, 2010; Álvarez & Reula, 2005 ).
Identify the features adopted into African religious system from the westerner religious system.
Fall of Traditional African Religion
Identify features and events accompanying the Ultimate collapse of the Traditional African Religious Worship as illustrated in Things Fall apart (Achebe, 2010)
The fate of traditions that abandon the religious rites
The role of Okonkwo in the collapse of the system as its visible religio-political leader (Achebe, 2010)
Hallmark event in the collapse of Igbo religious system
Conclusion
Pure traditional African religious system (Achebe, 2010)
Features of an infiltrated Igbo religious system
References
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2010. Print.
Álvarez, E. G., & Reula, J. F. G. (2005). God (s) Fall (s) Apart: Christianity in Chinua Achebe's" Things Fall Apart." Journal of English Studies, (5 ), 105-118.
Asamoah-Gyadu, J. K. (2010). ‘The Evil You Have Done Can Ruin the Whole Clan’: African Cosmology, Community, and Christianity in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Studies in World Christianity, 16 (1), 46–62.
Lakshmi, S. G. (2016). Multidimensional Impact of Colonialism on Igbos: A Study of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God. Language in India, 16 (2), 67–82.
Stratton, F. (1994). Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender. Retrieved from: https://books.google.com/books?id=fyCWy7EelMEC&vq=religion&dq=had+a+philosop hy+of+great+depth+and+value+and+beauty,+that+they+had+poetry+and,+above+all,+th ey+had+dignity&source=gbs_navlinks_s
