The Lgbo dependency on the ancestors and gods in their culture has now been questioned. It is their tradition, stories proverbs, from which they govern their lives. Uchendu, a village elder shows his acknowledgment of diversity by saying “The world has no end and what is good among one people is an abomination with others” (p. 141). In the end the decision is made by the elders that they do “not really want them in their clan” (p. 148) but remain well-mannered and offer them a piece of land in the evil forest. “A stranger who turns unbearably presumptuous and arrogantly insulting automatically forfeits his welcome”, notwithstanding the Igbo custom of “hospitality and effusive generosity to strangers” (85). At this point the only success of
