Things Fall Apart

Culture is everywhere. It is in our streets, our homes, and schools. A person's own culture is very important to them. It can even be what holds them together. The act of taking away culture can have major circumstances. We see this especially in Africa when the Europeans invade and try to force on Christianity along with other ways of life. It shows vividly, what colonialism does to a foreign country. Colonialism is pretty much one country, invading another country, and taking over politically as well as socially. In “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, he depicts this perfectly. He shows how, when culture is taken away, some identity is lost. In Africa, the original god’s and traditions were changed, war broke out, and they could do nothing about it! Even in their own land, they were under people who had just begun to step foot on African soil.
To start off, one of the first things that started to change in Africa after colonialism was religion. The Europeans came in, and nearly forced a new religion on to the African people. The religion they wanted everyone to be apart of was Christianity. They even built some churches on African soil. If they gave the
It shouldn’t have messed with the Africans identity, it should have helped them. But when something you have known your whole life, goes away, you don’t care how good the next thing is, you want what you loved back. And it didn’t help that the Europeans took land and didn’t let natives have a choice in their laws. Even if the Europeans were doing the right thing in general, there were way better ways to go about it. They could have peacefully asked to come into their land. And they didn’t have to blunty say that the African gods weren’t real. The way the Europeans introduced Christianity warped what it really was. It made it seem like Christianity was a forceful religion, when really it is not at