"Low voices, broken now and again by singing, reached Okonkwo from his wives' huts as each woman and her children told folk stories" (Achebe 96).
An integral part of Igbo culture is storytelling. Stories are used to teach morals to children and to explain the events of the past. However, most of these stories never got outside the tribes. The imperialists had their own stories of Africa, and wrote many books about the different countries and the people living in them. Almost no stories were told from the African point of view, so the people outside of Africa had a very skewed vision of what life in Africa was really like. When the imperialists arrive in Umuofia, they will most likely be very surprised by the level of sophistication of the Igbo culture. Their attempts to mold the civilization to fit western standards will probably be met with quite a strong degree of defiance, because the Igbo people are very set in their ways. The Igbo are a very superstitious people, and have many customs and traditions that dictate how they live their daily lives. Despite this, the imperialists will try to change that to get the Igbo people to follow their lead.
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