Obierika Memoir

I should have known that the intentions of the white men were not entirely true...They arrived in Umofia with their silly  religion and like fools we allowed them to stay. We underestimated them and that was the first step leading towards our ultimate demise. How we were unable to see their true agenda is still unknown to me. They were smart and their moves were strategic. By converting people to their faith they were able to effectively tear us in two. We no longer faced them as a unified front and this made opposing them that much harder. It is much easier to fight an enemy unknown to you however, when the enemy begins to be the familiar faces of our brothers there's no point in fighting as we have already lost the most important battle. Perhaps if we had fought back harder in the early stages they might have withdrew from our land and left our people alone. Okonkwo was a fool in the end but he was right in his recognition of  the white men as a true threat to our way of life. Oh how easily they stripped us of our power and bent us into submission through their promises of religion and education for our sons and daughters. What we didn't realize was that this education they were offering was simply to shape and form us into mere cogs in the machine of colonization, giving us jobs which only served them and their causes. Things fell apart in Umofia and we only realized this when it was too late and our fate became inevitable.