Thursday, February 7, 2008
Things Fall Apart: Chapter 23
Now we start to see the tricks of the white man and the easy trust of the villagers come in to play. The District Commissioner asks to meet with the leaders of Umuofia. After the leaders unarm themselves, they are surprised by a number of soldiers. I believe that the events that followed may not be an actual account of an event that happened, but could very well describe the types of things that happened to Africans when they were captured by whites. The whites beat them, and them set a bail for them. The tribe must come up with a sum of two hundred fifty cowries to pay for their leaders safe return, or they will be hung. As I said, this may not be how things actually happened, but it could be a very good description.
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It definitely is a mean trick to have they put down their weapons. To answer your concern, I am not sure from what parts of this story are fact from fiction. What we do know is that the British did colonize the Lower Nigerian River area int he 1880's and the country will never be the same. So as you point out, the outcome is probably not far from the truth.
Mr. Farrell
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