Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) and No Longer at Ease (1960) (REVIEW ESSAY)

The Igbo- and English-speaking Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) sensitively portrays the psychodynamics of British colonialism in Nigeria in his novels Things Fall Apart (1958) and No Longer at Ease (1960). In the present essay, I draw on the work of the American Jesuit Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) to discuss Achebe's 1958 and 1960 novels.