Chinua Achebe wrote about the way of life in Nigeria that avoided stereotyping African identity, and at the same time keeping a critical viewpoint of the actions humans take that lead to their downfall. The aim of Achebe´s fiction is to take normal everyday passions that are common to all human beings and expose them without falling prey to over-simplified stereotypes, which tend to dehumanize the subject of the story. In ´Things Fall Apart´, for example, the plight of the main character is described without resorting to any sort of value judgements on the village´s strict and un-western system of justice.