By Chinua Achebe
Media books on this subject (and some web links)– listed in Destiny under Resource Lists/ Public tab/Things
Fall Apart list.
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Nigeria, Igbo, Ibo “Things Fall Apart”, Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad, Africa
Plus specific cultural terms from your Research Topic list linked with country or tribe name
Use “AND” between terms or phrases to narrow your results
Databases
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 Bloom’s Literary Reference Online
Conrad AND Achebe
 Culturegrams
 World Geography and Culture Online
 Modern World History Online
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 SIRS
Keyword/Natural language search
“Nigeria history” OR “Nigeria AND Achebe” OR “Achebe ,
Chinua”
 Britannica School Online
 Britannica Online Academic Edition
 Ebsco>History Reference Center
Nigeria or “Nigeria AND Achebe
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