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Teaching Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe and the languages of African literature

Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe and the languages of African literature

Sarah Jilani, PhD Candidate, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
The Conversation

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Does it matter that Things Fall Apart is written in English—the language of the colonizers?
STANDARDS:
RI.1 - Meaning & Evidence, RI.2 - Main Ideas

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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