chapter 22: Well I guess it was weird that a toughtfull man like Mr.Brown had left. But like th eIbo people had always said when a lizard,lost its tail it soon grew another. It was the same with the white men. When Mr.Brown left Mr.Smith came to Umofia to replace Mr.Brown. This man was the toltal opposite of Mr.Brown,and that got to me because Now I realized how nice he actually was. He encouraged the zealots of the church to act out against the pagan tribe. It was this encouragement that brought about a great conflict between the church and the tribe. I honestly thought this was so out of order,and it was this encouragement that brought about a great conflict between the church and the tribe.
I don’t even know how to explain myself anymore because i’ve been saying latetly that things have been falling apart,but they are getting worse everyday,and it’s not even funny anymore. Now I am really getting serious about thins. My fury is so inmense that I would kill any one who crossed my ground. There was this man named Enoch. He was described as a fanatic christian, and a son of a tribal spiritual leader. I HATE HIM! He unmasked one of an egwugwu in public, which was a great crime and insult against the ancestral spirits. That was so unhuman for him to do. He had dishonored me in a way were he also dishonored the entire Ibo people. Now I felt the enire fury of my village in my spine,and we were ready to kill!
Because of this terrible moment that happened the tribe,and me were determined that Enoch had to die, and when they went to kill him, they found that Mr. Smith was protecting him in the name of the Christian church. That was incredibly pathetic to me. And I know that my village,and I will not stand there without doing anything we were getting vengance. Nobody had ever disrespected our tribe like that. I mean we all knew how important egwugwu was. egwugwu were Men who disguise themselves as the ancestral spirits of the village and judge disputes among the villages. There are nine egwugwu, one for each of the nine villages started by the sons of the father of the clan long ago.
To seek our revenge we did something evil yet hevily for us. We burned that church down to ashes,and we were actually glad we did it because people do anything for thier own people,and noone should disrespect the people’s culture because you should then expect that person to snap.
