The Effect of Colonialism in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Essay

This essay is about(predicate) the effect of Colonialism seen in the book Things Fall Apart. Through out the whole book you grass see different impressions on the tribe, many other people, and the relationships between the innocence man and the black man. Does the white man understand our custom about land? How can he when he does not even accost our tongue? But he says that our springer are bad and our protest brothers who shake up taken up his religion also say that our usage are bad. How do you think we can fight when our own brothers abide turned against us? The white man is very clever. He came quiet and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. (Achebe, 17) This discussion of the white man not understanding the customs and traditions, comes ever sin ce the arrival of the colonialists, Obierika seems to voice Achebes own thoughts on colonialism. Upset by the fact that the white men have come and completely handle the Igbo sense of justice, Obierika points out the impossibility of the colonialists understanding anything about the Umuofians without speaking their language. whence he points out the foolishness of belittling unfamiliar customs. Obierika does not correct the whole blame on the white mans side. He feels also that the Umuofians who have con...