Things Fall Apart
Chapter 25
What do you think of the title of the book the District Commissioner is planning to write?What do you think it says about his view of the lbo people?
What do you think of the title of the book the District Commissioner is planning to write?What do you think it says about his view of the lbo people?
The District Commissioner plans to write a book on his experiences in Nigeria, and the title it: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger. This reveals sense of racial superiority towards the Igbo people, He sees them as merely objects of study rather than as actual human beings with their own culture.