Creative writing on "Things Fall Apart" by Achenua Achebe. The teacher wanted us to explain our own culture to the Africans.

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…these people would not even talk back to those white men. The white men got them like a baby crow in a beautiful, never-used hands. He would never follow their rules. If the clan wanted the white men's new culture and forgot what we had believed, let them be, he thought. He would wait unto the time when he did not think the white should not go any further, then he would fight by himself.