Delivered by Professor Lifongo Vetinde

This lecture on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, delivered at Lawrence University on March 7, 2003, was designed for students and faculty in the college's Freshman Studies program. Freshman Studies, a multidisciplinary introduction to the liberal arts, has been the cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum for over fifty years. The lecturer, Lifongo Vetinde, is an assistant professor of French at Lawrence. Vetinde holds the M.A. and the Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. He has presented papers and led panels at conferences of the Modern Language Association and has published numerous book reviews.

The lecture is now available as a RealAudio file. The lecture runs just over an hour.