https://pithybooks.com/tags/colonialism/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “colonialism”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:10 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/things-fall-apart/ https://pithybooks.com/books/things-fall-apart/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries and courts remaking his old world. https://pithybooks.com/books/heart-of-darkness/ https://pithybooks.com/books/heart-of-darkness/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marlow pilots a steamer up the Congo for a trading company and seeks Kurtz, the brilliant agent who stopped sending ivory and started sending reports no one can explain. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-poisonwood-bible/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-poisonwood-bible/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A missionary drags his wife and four daughters to the Congo in 1959, and Africa remakes each of them.