How Did Umuofia Occur In Things Fall Apart

William Butler Yeats poem “The Second Coming” is a referring poem to Things Fall Apart a story by Chinua Achebe Published in 1958, because it is showing the things that happen. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” The adventure of Things Fall Apart tells the story of the protagonist and well known member of the igbo people, Okonkwo. As William Butler Yeats tries to explain how Umuofia was torn apart from its original state of glory and was reconstructed to a new society, he demonstrates that the reasons that umuofia started to fall apart was because the igbo people were divided among themselves, also due to imperialism the people became oppressed, and finally the missionaries brought upon a great change which came in the
Some of the short term conflict that came from this were large numbers of Africans came under European rule, Local economies became dependent, Africans lost control their land and independence and were placed under the indirect British british ruling. These things affected the people because they could no longer collect the money that their natural resources and worked for foreign influences. People were forced to work for extraneous amounts of time which made them want to revolt; in many cases they did. The fictional Igbo people were not the only ones to be affected by the influence of foreigners many of which abandoned their former religion by being forced into or accepting the religion. Although this was one of the major events that happened to the people of Africa the colonization was not the greatest factor to change