In the Images of World Literature slideshow, you saw images inspired by Things Fall Apart. Here at Connections, you can find varied interpretations, analyses, and performances of Okonkwo's story.
Movies/Popular Interpretations/TV/Performance
- Things Fall Apart was made into a movie by a Nigerian production company in 2008, with an all-Nigerian cast. Pete Edochie starred as Okonkwo. Read an interview with the actor.
http://www.naijarules.com/vb/stars-celebrities-nigerian-movies/30790-things-fall-apart-i-pete-edochie.html
Buy the film.
http://www.africanmoviesdirect.com/product_info.php?products_id=43036 - The Village of Umuofia website takes you on an interactive journey to and through an Igbo village.
http://www.literaryworlds.wmich.edu/umuofia/umuofia.html - Biyi Bandele adapted Things Fall Apart for the stage in 2008.
http://www.nollywoodwatch.com/things-fall-apart-plays-in-abuja/#more-111
- David Orere directed a TV miniseries of the book in 1987 on Nigerian television.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870887/ - A dramatic radio program called Okonkwo was broadcast in April 1961 by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. It featured the future Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka in a minor role.
Music
- The Roots, an American hip hop band, put out an album called Things Fall Apart in 1999. The music on the album addresses social issues facing black Americans.
http://www.amazon.com/Things-Fall-Apart-Roots/dp/B00000I5JL
