Background on Chinua Achebe. The life of Chinua Achebe / Chinua Achebe's philosophy of fiction / Achebe feels a special commitment as an African writer / Things Fall Apart and colonialism. Okonkwo's actions foreshadow colonialism's impact on traditional values / Okonkwo's loss of identity parallels the experience of colonized Africans / Language conveys male Africans' and colonists' power / Women play a key role in the community depicted in Things Fall Apart / Achebe does not idealize precolonial and postcolonial Igbo society / Igbo and European cultures clash ; Willene P. Taylor ; Okonkwo's tragedy is not due to colonialism / The white man redeemed Igbo society / Three distinct endings present a layered approach to the colonized experience / Contemporary perspectives on colonialism. Foreign aid is a twenty-first-century form of colonialism / The one laptop per child project is a form of colonialism / Norfolk Islanders resist colonization by Australia / French revisionists attempted to defend colonialism in Africa / The first woman elected president in Africa is called a neocolonialist / The United Nations wants to force liberation on unwilling colonies