1958年,尼日利亚作家钦努阿·阿契贝出了一本书,叫《这个世界土崩瓦解了》(Things Fall Apart,又被译作《瓦解》或《崩溃》),这是非洲小说的杰作,是非洲文学中被最广泛阅读的作品。五百年前开启的现代化源于西方、扩散到全球,极大地改变了世界。阿契贝的这部小说就讲述了非洲社会是如何被西方力量改变的,这是一曲本土文化的挽歌。 In 1958 Nigerian author Chinuch Akhebe published a book titled Things Fall Apart (translated as “disintegration” or “collapse”), a masterpiece of African novels The most widely read piece in African literature. The modernization started five hundred years ago originated in the West and spread all over the world, greatly changing the world. Ahchi Bei’s novel tells how African societies have been transformed by Western power, an elegy of indigenous culture.