Identity and Resistance in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God

The chapter examines voice of identity and resistance in Chinua Achebe’s most promising novels Things Fall Apart (2010a) and Arrow of God (2010b). The chapter investigates the colonised Igbo community, one of Nigeria’s major ethnic groups who stand for their own identity, native religion, unique customs, and the ways in which the British colonists subvert that community. It illustrates how the two cultures collide, and how these caused into loss of cultural hegemony of the Igbo people. It focuses on the various ways to attempt resistance of the native Igbo people in order to sustain their culture. It questions the survival of the ruling colonial mentality in Igbo socio political and cultural structure. The chapter also presents the self-consciousness of the colonised people against the alterations that colonialism has made to their identity and culture, and it depicts their eagerness against the colonial suppression.