Everything collapses. Achebe Ch.

On the edge of the unclean forest, people of nine villages lived. They lived as their ancestors lived before them, representatives of the amazing people because, and revered their bizarre, humanly capricious gods and strict, but good spirits. They performed rites, in the opinion of strangers - strange and cruel. They fought, put up, raised children. They worked in the fields and harvested. They drank homemade palm wine and had fun at the holidays.

And then the Europeans came - with the intention of teaching the "black savages" to live like white, to believe how white and raise children, like white. Strong civilized people who are ready to make the people of nine villages make the people of nine with an iron hand.