A White Culture Moves In Achebe makes an important point throughout the novel that the Ibo culture believes in lending a hand when someone is in need. Sometimes helping a person in need becomes deadly and even fatal in Things Fall Apart. The white missionaries who come to Africa, honeslty believe that they are “helping” the Ibo village by converting them to Christianity. However, their presence in Africa is harmful to the lives and culture …showed first 75 words of 835 total…

…showed last 75 words of 835 total…white men are symbolic. The good intentioned missionaries not only bring new religion, which they try to enforce, but they also bring a senseless and emotionless government, that ruins the peaceful atmosphere within the village. Africa will only reach its full potential when everyone realizes the importance of preserving its cultural traditions. If we go on thinking that “our” ways and beliefs are “right,” we will never be able to appreciate different cultures and societies.