IN A VERY GENERAL SENSE, POST-COLONIALISM IS THE STUDY OF THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND THE CIVILIZATIONS THEY COLONIZED IN THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD. THE EUROPEAN TERRITORY IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE HELD CONTROL OVER MORE THAN EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE REST OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE TIME OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, HAVING UNITED ITS CONTROL OVER SEVERAL CENTURIES SUCH AS INDIA, NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND CARIBBEAN SEA COUNTRIES. IT IS IMPORTANT TO STUDY POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE IN ORDER TO GIVE AWARENESS ABOUT THE PROCESS AND CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIZATION. DUE TO ACHIEVING THIS GOAL, THIS STUDY AIMED TO INVESTIGATE THE NOVEL OF THINGS FALL APART (1958) BY CHINUA ACHEBE. DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE ARE TRACEABLE IN THIS NOVEL, BUT JUST GENDER AND LANGUAGE AND THEIR INTERRELATION IS STUDIED IN ORDER TO SHOW THE SUBTLE WAY OF SUPPRESSING WOMEN THROUGH EMPHASIZING MASCULINE SOCIETY AND THE LANGUAGE THAT ACHEBE DELIBERATELY USED IN THE MENTIONED NOVEL AND ALSO ENGLISH TO SHOW THE DOMINATION AND SUPERIORITY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AMONG IGBO’S SOCIETY; THIS NOVEL IN A LARGER SCOPE IS REFERRED TO THE CALL FOR HELP OF NIGERIAN.