3. Whites often referred to Africa as the “dark continent,” a place of evil. Considering the traditional beliefs of the Igbo and the colonial encounter between Britain and the Igbo, where does the harm lie in this book? In Things Fall Apart, Achebe (1969) depicts Nigeria at a time when the arrival of the British was intrusive as they crept within Nigeria. borders and exerted overwhelming influence while asserting that Nigerians were ultimately evil and needed to be controlled. Essentially, it seems that one of Achebe's (1969) aims is to make readers understand what the alternative motivations of the British were when British colonialism occurred. Although the British wished to present Nigerians as untamed and undomesticated, Igbo society was a multifaceted society with a complex social system of values ​​and traditions. Igbo society was an ancient civilization with a labyrinthine system of governance and laws, and yet these laws involved barbaric practices. For example, Achebe (1969) presents customs such as those of Nigerians leaving behind many babies and the unthinkable and barbaric...