“Things Fall Apart” is a multifaceted work, which traverses many subject areas, as it narrates the sudden encounter between a hitherto closed Igbo society and the colonists, and the inevitable culture shock it engendered. It portrays the actual and ideal African society as one with undiluted or unadulterated cultural values prior to western impact. Indeed, the narrative began with pre-colonial times and navigated through the point when the missionaries and colonial masters came and ‘polluted’the African society, destroying the very things that make us who we are and mark us out at the international scene. The work has been aptly described as an ethnographic masterpiece. Another area covered by Achebe, and which forms a significant part of this paper is traditional communication, which has long been part of the life of the African people. This was lucidly captured, as far back as the 1950s, in various parts of the novel. This work looks at the