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INTRODUCTION: Chinua Achebe has penned the book "Things Fall Apart" as retaliation against the Western books portraying African cultures and tribal religions as brutal, savage and animalistic. He attempts to portray through his book that the people of the African Igbo tribe are not savages or mindless tribals, they are a people with a history and a culture and a well thought out way of life. He also tries to give a realistic portrayal of …

…They imposed their laws on them, brushing callously aside the system of Igbo justice that had existed and functioned for centuries. One of the Christian converts unmasked the egwugwu, showing their contempt for the religion. The British were non-tolerant and wanted to 'civilize' the tribes, not realizing that the tribes were quite happy the way they were! With the force feeding of Christianity the tribe was divided, and it destroyed their autonomy and religious ways.