If I could re-do it all I would, but I cannot go back now, the
damage has been done. I should’ve taken action earlier before it all got
too messed up, now everything has fallen apart beyond repair. I should have
known the moment the white people came into our territory and began changing
everything that they were going to be our downfall. I should’ve known that
although the Christians were accepting of all people and have opened the doors
to many opportunities for the people in Umofia, that they still had an agenda.
Just as the famous quote by Jomo Kenyatta goes “When the missionaries came, the
Africans had the land and the Christians had the Bible. They taught us to pray
with our eyes closed.
When we opened them they had the land and we had the Bible”
When we opened them they had the land and we had the Bible”
The missionaries have deceived us by enforcing Christianity when
in reality all they wanted was to take over and destroy our homeland.
I should have listened to Okonkwo, my best friend. For he was able
to see the true strategy of the missionaries. For ignoring him and disregarding
his thoughts on rebellion is in fact one of my greatest regrets, for all along
he was right, and had I stood by him and supported him maybe things would have
turned out differently.
However I was deceived and I ignored Okonkwo, which led him to
kill himself, and led the missionaries destroy the core of Umofia, its Ibo
culture and traditions. Besides with the destruction of the core, everything
around it must fall apart.
-Obierika
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