Join us for our annual Black History Month program with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, as we screen Things Fall Apart, a 1971 film adapting two of Chinua Achebe's novels. Following the screening will be a conversation with Dr. Nduka Otiono, a former research assistant of Chinua Achebe and Director of Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies and Yasmina Price, writer and researcher.

About the Film

When Obi Okonkwo completes his studies in England and returns to Nigeria, he finds himself in a country marked by rapid industrialization and deep political change. Navigating romantic love and the expectations and disappointments of modern Nigeria, he experiences rampant corruption, the dominance of Europeans, and conflicts between modern and traditional values. Adapted from the novels Things Fall Apart (1958) and No Longer at Ease (1960)—two parts of Chinua Achebe’s African Trilogy—this rarely seen and recently recovered feature film was produced by Nigerian filmmaker Francis Oladele and directed by Berlin-based filmmaker Hans Jürgen Pohland.


About Hans Jürgen Pohland

About our Year-Round Community Engagement

Community engagement is essential to the AFF mission. We partner with a broad spectrum of arts and social justice organizations to spark discussion and activate the public around African cinema and culture. Learn More