Abia: WhenThe Center Struggled, But Things Did Not Fall Apart – Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke
ABIA: WHEN THE CENTER STRUGGLED, BUT THINGS DID NOT FALL APART In Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the tragedy of Umuofia was never that the people lacked strength. It was that the old order refused to listen, even as new winds gathered at the horizon. The real danger was not the arrival of the white man but the rigidity of a leadership that mistook stubbornness for wisdom. When the center failed to adapt, “the machete struck the air.” Abia today stands at a similar crossroads — a place where old suspicions wrestle with new realities, where citizens, long betrayed by decades…
