Okonkwo And Umuofia

In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, we learn that nineteenth-century Europeans alter Igbo society by bringing in new institutions like religion, the change of culture, and political structures. European colonization threatens almost every aspect of the Umuofia people’s society, from the individual status to government.
Political systems in European culture are formed on the basis of class systems, whereas the Igbo tribe rules based on seniority. Since the Europeans know little of Umuofia’s way of running things, nor do they care to learn since they see the Eurocentric ideals as most superior, this causes a rift between the Europeans and the Igbo people. Okonkwo “mourns for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft