Place as the first system — and what it costs when a system changes
Students open the unit by reading a teen narrator’s introduction to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart alongside a paraphrase of Chapter 20’s egwugwu scene, examining how Achebe renders Igbo life from the inside as a deliberate reply to Conrad and why that reply sits at the heart of the unit’s essential question — how the places we come from shape who we are allowed to become.
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