Things Fall Apart

Book Playlist

Things Fall Apart Playlist

by Chinua Achebe

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 31, 2026

This playlist moves between the pulse of communal life and the mounting rupture brought by colonial rule, with West African musical traditions providing a cultural anchor rather than a generic historical backdrop. Its instrumental opening evokes landscape, ceremony, and gathering; the vocal half brings in songs of identity, resistance, loss, and belonging that resonate with the novel’s characters and changing world.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Act Won (Things Fall Apart)

The Roots · Things Fall Apart

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2

Kaira

Toumani Diabaté · Kaira

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3

Peaches En Regalia

Frank Zappa · Hot Rats

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4

Song For My Father

Horace Silver · Song For My Father

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5

African Waltz

Cannonball Adderley · African Waltz

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6

Elegia

New Order · Live at Bestival 2012

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7

Django

The Modern Jazz Quartet · Pyramid

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8

Water No Get Enemy

Fela Kuti · Expensive Shit

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9

Zombie

Fela Kuti · Zombie

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10

Soweto Blues

Miriam Makeba · Welela

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11

Agolo

Angelique Kidjo · Aye

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12

Yèkèrmo Sèw

Mulatu Astatke · New York - Addis - London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975

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13

Shosholoza

Ladysmith Black Mambazo · Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Friends

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14

Mbube

Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds · From Marabi to Disco

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15

Soweto

Hugh Masekela · Home

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16

Sodade

Cesária Evora · Miss Perfumado

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17

Still Moment

Tunde Jegede · Still Moment

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18

Grazing In The Grass

Hugh Masekela · The Promise Of A Future

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19

Tezeta

Mulatu Astatke · New York - Addis - London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975

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20

The Wedding

Abdullah Ibrahim · Solotude

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