Saturday, November 17, 2012

Why did te white men colonize the Igbo society in Things Fall Apart?

Short of being able to ask those specific white men
themselves, you can look at a variety of historical reasons put forth for
colonization:


One is the constant desire to expand,
demonstrated throughout history by any nation or group of nations grown strong enough to
do so.  The desire for more land, more resources, more labor, etc., has driven countries
to expand and colonize and continues to do so though it isn't always through direct
colonization as it was in the case of Nigeria.


Another has
been the drive of missionaries and others involved with religions to feel that they can
help to "save" ignorant or backwards people from their wrong traditions and that drove
some of the people who went to Africa, they felt they were spreading the gospel which
would help to save the souls of all these people.

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