This paper explores identity construction in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. It is rooted on the ideational metafunction, which is built around process types, participant roles and circumstances. Six chapters were randomly chosen across the corpus through drawing lots Six excerpts, one excerpt from each of the six chosen chapters and ranging between three to five clauses, were gathered through purposive sampling. The analysis of the excerpts through the process types and participant roles reveals the dominance of mental and material processes. The results contribute in defining reflection and action as identity patterns in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Identity is woven into the narrative and revealed through the character’s actions and states and through the events described.

Achebe, building, ideational, identity, metafunction