🤔🤔🤔 @jmusictracks You may have been right all. Chinua Achebe in his novel Things Fall Apart gives us a unique picture of how missionaries indoctrinated the Igbo to abandon their traditional beliefs and practices which they viewed as satanic. ⠀ ⠀”Does the white man understand our custom about land?" "How can he when he does not even speak our tongue? But he says that our customs are bad; and our own brothers who have taken up his religion also say that our customs are bad. How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us? The white man is very clever. ⠀ ⠀He came quietly 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."-273⠀ ⠀”Mr. Brown [the missionary to the Ibo village] learned a good deal about the religion of the clan and he came to the conclusion that a frontal attack on it would not succeed. And so he built a school and a little hospital in Umuofia. He went from family to family begging people to send their children to his school.“-279⠀ ⠀ “This is a great gathering.No clan can boast of greater numbers or greater valour. But are we all here?I ask you: Are all the sons of Umuofia with us here?" A deep murmur swept through the crowd.They are not," he said. "They have broken the clan and gone their several ways.We who are here this morning have remained true to our fathers, but our brothers have deserted us and joined a stranger to soil their fatherland. ⠀ ⠀ If we fight the stranger we shall hit our brothers and perhaps shed the blood of a clansman. But we must do it.Our fathers never dreamed of such a thing, they never killed their brothers.But a white man never came to them.” ⠀ Excerpt From Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CjKZniIuF4W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=











