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Every culture or society is the sum total of its individuals. The society is the reflection of the perspectives, faith and beliefs of an individual. Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" is a remarkable example of the portrayal of the positive and negative elements in a society, and also of how a clash between them can lead to the disintegration of a culture. Achebe has presented the Igbo society in a very realistic manner. Achebe develops the theme of traditional verses change through a powerful presentation of the beauty, strength, and validity of traditional life and values and the disruptiveness of change. The change in this novel comes with the advent of the missionaries, and this interference in the primal society of Umuofia leads to the collision between the good and the evil, the black and the white. This paper is an attempt to describe the culture of the Ibo, an ethnic group that reside in South-East Nigeria, and the conflicts and challenges they face when Europeans arrive and attempt to colonize their society.