British and Ibo

At first the Ibo town was destroyed by the white people so there was a sense of danger and mystery surrounding them, so when they arrived in Okonkwo’s motherland everybody wanted to see them. The villagers were amused by the Christian religion so they let them stay. Soon people became attracted to the new religion because of the songs and ideas. The tribal people soon began to understand how the Christians could not accept their ideas and culture. When Okonkwo returned to his fatherland he saw how different it was. Although not everyone was converted, quite a few were. They leader of this church however was very kind. He actually tried to understand the different traditions and the religion of the Ibo. This improved the relations between the two different groups. Everything fell apart when Mr. Brown, the nice person, got sick and they replaced him with Mr. Smith. This man is not very nice and only saw the villagers as things to make profit off of. The judicial system got worse too. They gave people that were low in the social class the job of a court messenger. These people became corrupt and were mean to the Ibo. In the end the British viewed the Africans way of life as savage and wrong. They were like Mr. Smith and saw everything in black and white, black being evil, and in their minds black being the African culture.