Things Fall Apart | Chapter 16 Summary and Analysis

Summary
Two years later, Obierika visits Okonkwo again. He has seen Nwoye among the missionaries in Umuofia. They have built a church and won a handful of converts. The converts are considered to be efulefu, or worthless men, by the Igbo community. The missionaries have also come to Mbanta. One is a white man who speaks through an interpreter. He preaches about a new God, the Creator of all the world. He says this God judges the dead. Good men who worship the true God live forever. Evil men who worship wood and stone are thrown into an eternal fire.

An old man asks...


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