Chapter Sixteen

Two years later, in Mbanta, white missionaries have come and are going to live among the clan and teach the new religion. The missionaries also go to Obierika’s clan of Umuofia, where Okonkwo is originally is from. Obierika sees Nwoye, Okonkwo’s oldest son, and asked what he is doing. Nwoye’s reply is that he is one of them now, meaning part of the missionary. When asked about his father, he says “I don’t know, he’s not my father. So Obierika pays a visit to Okonkwo to see what happened. Okonkwo wouldn’t talk, so he got most of the story out of Nwoye’s mom. When the missionaries came, the hymn they sang soothed him, so he joined. This chapter was kind of …blah, yeah, it introduces the whites to the clan, and that Nwoye has joined in the new faith, but does not have much importance. Only that it again has tidbits of new information about the culture, but not enough to worry about. The only other importance is that it introduces the clan to the new religion, which they pretty much just turn up their noses too, and laugh at. Another thing that they don’t really like is that the missionaries call their gods fake, and say that their god is the only god.