Voices of Africa african authors are arguably not as well known as those from North American and European countries. However, Africa is home to many gifted and acclaimed writers Among the most important voices from Africa are Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka. and Ngugi wa Thiong'o Many of these authors' works deal with cultural customs and history. Some works express their criticism of colonialism. chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist and poet. He began publishing his writing in the late 1950s over his career, he has written six novels, dozens of essays and commentaries collections of short stories and poems, and even children's books. The bulk of his work deals with African polaios, precolonial African society, and the repercussions of colonin on Africa, which he views as overwhelmingly negative A Achebe's most acolaimed novel, Things Fall Apart, was surprisingly his first and was published in 1958, since its first printing, it has sold ten million copies and has been translated into fifty languages, making Achebe the most translated African author of a time' The work is widely read in academia and has been cited by Norway. England, the United States, and Africa as one of the rop 100 ridveis of all time, it tells the story of an African village during the 18oos and focuses on okonkowo, one of the leaders of me community. The village exists in relative and order a wh appearance of man threatens their religion and traditional way of life. The change proves to be too much okonkwo, and ends very tragically. The work is representative of Aohebe's themes of African politics and the effects of colonialism, which appear frequently in his later