Things Fall Apart

how does the ibo superstition about the birth of twins compel the first native woman to join the white mans church?

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The Christans win their first female convert, a woman named Nneka. She is pregnant but had given birth to twins. Igbo custom maintained that twins had to be abandoned to a death by exposure. She flees her family and takes refuge with the new church.