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    According to Simon Gikandi, " Achebe develops techniques and promotes ideologies- whose primary purpose is to contest, and wrestle with,
    
    the silent shadows and forms of colonialist discourse
    
    […] My contention here is that if we do not tune our ears to the written and unwritten discourse that blocks Achebe's attempt to recover the essential forms of Igbo culture in
    
    
    Things Fall Apart
    
    
    […] then we will often miss the value of
    
    the novel as a form of cultural formation
    . the first question we need to take up, then, relates to the strategies Achebe develops to reply to his colonialist precursors, or rather to turn the Western fantasy on Africa upside down, a gesture of reversal… which makes it possible for Achebe to initiate narratives of resistance. A reading of
    
    
    Things Fall Apart
    
    
    which fails to relate it to the discourse that shadows it misses the revolutionary nature of Achebe's text."
    

    
    

In the light of this observation examine the strategies of resistance to colonialist discourse on Africa, deployed by Achebe in


Things Fall Apart

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