How a community teaches us who we are — and how we decide what to carry forward
Students open the Identity and Belonging unit by reading an original composition about a student tracing family belonging through names, language, and inherited stories, alongside a clearly labeled paraphrase and close reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). They examine how Achebe renders Igbo life as a complete social world, how colonial arrival changes the terms of belonging, and how identity is shaped by what a person inherits, resists, and remakes.
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