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Abstract:
Nature in original African culture has a supreme power which forbids human beings from immorality or unjust treatment toward it. Being animate and eco-friendly are the noteworthy features which make this culture distinct from others. Moreover these features provoke African people against colonization and exploitation. Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart is discussed based on the eco-critical study and the concept of colonization. Since these two concepts form essential aspects of life experience in Africa, this study tries to analyze them and examine them in the African context. This novel depicts Africa before colonization as a society which still had its bond with Nature and was trying to preserve it against the invasion of colonizers. Achebe has always tried to focus the attention of his people to these issues to revive the original African culture. The aim of this study is to reveal this attempt through various events and characters in the body of the novel. It attempts to retrace the historical developments and new implications of eco-critical study vis-a-vis colonialism as one of the disputed concepts focusing on Achebe's novel as well.

Keywords: eco-criticism, colonialism, Chinua Achebe, things fall apart

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