John English The assimilation of the African continent by European colonizers and missionaries was a destructive and often bloody chapter of our history. It imposed a way of life that was foreign and often contrary to the ways of Africa’s people, as Chinua Achebe shows us in his book Things Fall Apart. The main character in this work, Okonkwo, is almost completely unable to react to the change that the Anglican’s brought to …showed first 75 words of 771 total…

…showed last 75 words of 771 total…it had before been one in such a way that they were seldom able to live in peace, and that has been reoccurring them in the works of Achebe. The colonization of Africa was one of many controversial European endeavors, and while it brought with it the knowledge of the modern world, it too destroyed a way of life. Okonkwo was just one of those lives, but his story represents the story of a people.