Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe uses stories as “a means to achieve the poetics of verisimilitude and a realistic representation of experience” (Obiechina 6). Many stories in African literature, both oral and written, attempt to explain events that cannot be proven by a certain deity or serve to teach morals to younger members of society. Using the Things Fall Apart stories as metaphors and comparisons between pre- and post-colonial Africa, Achebe constantly describes, through Okonkwo's speculations, Westerners as the fall of African societies. “At first, a fairly small swarm arrived. They were precursors sent to survey the country. And then there appeared on the horizon a slow mass like an unlimited sheet of black cloud drifting towards Umuofia. Soon it covered half the sky, and the solid mass was now broken up by tiny eyes of light like bright stardust. It was a tremendous sight, full of power and beauty” (Achebe 39). In this quote, Achebe foreshadows the colonization of Umuofia with a story, describing Westerners as locusts: foreign, curious, and intrusive. Achebe uses these traditional elements of culture to help him in his writing; act discreetly as literary devices, cleverly implanted without the reader's knowledge. In this way, an author has the opportunity to manipulate the plot and add