The Ibo and the British

At first, most of the Ibo people believed that it might be a sign of danger, but they thought their brothers in Abame were foolish to kill a man that didn't speak, and fairly soon they forgot about it. Then the white man made it to Umuofia, but he was peaceful and nice, not like how they heard of him in the story of Abame. The white man asked for a plot of land to make his church on, and he was given one in the Evil Forrest because the elders of the tribe thought they would perish there in the first few months. All of this was done under Mr. Brown, he was a nice man who wanted to try to learn about the Ibo culture, but his main purpose was to teach them that Christianity was the true religion and that all should worship it. However, Mr. Brown got sick and went back to Europe and a not-so-nice guy named Mr. Smith replaced him. He was nothing like Mr. Brown. He thought that you either worship Christianity or you have no right to live. He made the Ibo people see that the white man is not as nice as Mr. Brown made them out to be, but this vision came too late. The British believed that the Ibo people were savages worshipping savage gods. They viewed the Ibo people as less than them and could care less if they died or were converted, even though some, like Mr. Brown, wanted to convert and learn not kill. Those are the way the Ibo people responded to the arrival of the white man and how the British treated the Ibo people.