Assignment task:
Write a 4-5 page summary of Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.
Additional instructions: A book or movie review is a genre of writing concerned with summarizing and evaluating a book's arguments, themes, and contributions to scholarship. This assignment is designed to hone your ability to produce a clear, accurate, and incisive summary of the a novel, a film or a documentary. The review is 4-5 pages. An ideal review will balance between accurate command of the details of the text, alongside a discussion of the broad themes of the text, such as history, culture, religion, race relations, leadership and power, slavery and the slave trade, and technology. It will offer readers 1) an accurate summary of the text, 2) a discussion of its key questions or controversies and 3) an assessment of the significance of the text themes in terms of the broader course and the discipline of Africana studies