Achebe’s use of African proverbs in his English prose serves primarily to:
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Correct answer: W.B. Yeats
The title is taken from W.B. Yeats's poem 'The Second Coming', specifically the line 'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.' Achebe used this allusion to frame the collapse of traditional Igbo social order under the weight of colonial forces.
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