Things Fall Apart | Chapter 17 Summary and Analysis

New Characters:
Mr. Kiaga: Igbo interpreter for the missionaries

Nneka: the wife of the prosperous farmer Amadi

Summary
When the Christians ask the Igbo for a plot of land to build a church, the elders offer them the Evil Forest, which is filled with sinister forces. The Igbos know the gods and ancestors of Mbanta have a limit; they expected the missionaries to be punished by the seventh market week. However, the missionaries live on, and they build a new house for their teacher, Mr. Kiaga.

Nwoye is secretly interested in the new faith, and...



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