Culture as A Complex of Activities of African Traditional Society in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

This research paper analyzes culture as a complex of activities of African traditional society in a tribal, communal life in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The objective of this research paper is to analyze the kinds of activities-related cultures or better known as social culture reflected in an Anglophone literary work Things Fall Apart. The research approach used in this research paper is literary anthropology endorsed with theory of general cultural forms and theory of seven cultural universals to analyze the social culture of the African traditional community reflected in the literary work. The results of the research indicate that African traditional society has several kinds of activity- related cultures such as, livelihood activity-related culture, capital loan activity-related culture, religion ritual activity-related culture, traditional language activity-related culture, marriage proposal activity-related culture, music and dance art activity-related culture.