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In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe things really did fall apart for Okonkwo and his clan. Okonkwo lived in and African clan with his three wives and eight children. He was very respected within his clan and held two titles. He was also a great warrior and wrestler. Things started to fall apart for Okonkwo and his clan when the Europeans came in and tried to completely change the Africans way of living because they saw them as uncivilized. Imperialism was the attempt by the Europeans to change their culture. The three areas of the Africans lives most affected by imperialism were their society, religion, and family life.
The society of the Africans was very different than that of the Europeans. The Ibo people thought of women as possessions and they bought them from their families, and they had no rights. The Europeans, however, thought that women should be treated equally to men and brought in the idea of having only one wife rather than multiple wives as the......

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