Rough Draft Things Fall Apart

Rough Draft:Colonial Africa When most people think about Africa, they can about Ebola, the Sahara Desert, or the traditional clothing. In the novel, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe adds a lot to our knowledge on Africa in real life.The British wanted to rule Africa, so they could loot their resources. When, the British took control of Africa, they divided regions based off of the resources found there, not the people that lived in each one.The British had made their opinion about Africans, which was that they were uncivilized people.The novel,Things Fall Apart, adds to historians’ understanding of colonial Africa in terms of how the British split up regions , the resources Africa had, and how the Africans were viewed upon by the British. As described in the novel, the British took Africa’s resources when they were ruling them. Stated by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, “When the colonies of the European powers,for instance, comprised only one-tenth of …show more content…
Dividing regions based off of resources never works out because people who don’t get along with each other end up living with each other. This causes problem in society such as: religion, beliefs, and other issues people within the same society come across. As stated in Things Fall Apart,“Reverend Smith causes a great deal of conflict between the church and the clan with his refusal to understand and respect traditional Igbo culture.” This shows how the issue of religion came up when the British had invaded Africa and brought their religion, Christianity, with them there. Causing more problems than they already had, they created problems within the Africans too. This brought people together than weren’t meant to live with each other due to their differences, which caused many disagreements between their ideas and opinions.The British added more problems to Africans’ lives by dividing regions based on the resources found