Part II Things Fall Apart

Okonkwo was exiled from Umuofia and in 7 years he can’t come back to the land. He and his family went to Mbanta, Okonkwo´s motherland and they were well received. Uchendu is Okonkwos uncle; he is the oldest and wisest man in Mbanta. Unchendu´s sons, the cousin of Okonkwo gave to him seed-yams so he and his family start again their life. One day Unchendu talked to all the young people about Nneka and how important the woman and mothers are in this clan. After a while Obierika, the best friend of Okonkwo came to Mbanta to visit him. He stayed to meet Uchendu. Obierika told them what happened with Abame people that they disappeared because of the white men. What happened to them was that one white man came to the tribe of Abame and the Oracle said to them that the white men will bring destruction in them so they killed the white man; time later 3 white men came and kill the abame people. So Uchendu told them a story so they can understand the message "Never kill a man who says nothing".

Two years later Obierika came back with Okonkwo to give him some money he had in Umuofia, they started to talk and Obierika told him about Nwoye, and that the missionaries have arrived to Umuofia and that they will to Mbanta. In Mbanta people did not care much about the white men but one of the ones that did and also believe in them was Nwoye. The missionaries asked for land so they can build a church, and they give them some land in the Evil forest, and the Mbanta people thought that they will go to die there, but they didn’t. The missionaries did build the church and start making them to believe in their religion. The people of Mbnata started to become Christian and believed in Jesus Crist. After a time a outcast killed a python that was the sacred animal, and the punishment for this was to make a sacrifices in a ceremony but this time was an exception. Okonkwo and other men in the clan wanted to punish the man that did it but because they were very peaceful they thought that it was a better idea to stop talking and take away all their privileges to the women and men that became Christians.