The White Men's Arrival

The White Men's Arrival

War is Coming

Author: Marcus Abendanio, News Editor

In the Elk market, a group of people came to the town. Most of them were relatives of the lands. But there were others who came because of friends of the in the town and other's who could not think of anywhere else to escape. They fled into Umuofia. (Achebe 138) During the last planting season a white man appeared. The white man was riding on a iron horse. The first people from the town saw the white man and ran away. Ones who went near the white man came to him and touched him. The elders of the town came to their Oracle and told the Oracle of the white man. The Oracle says that, "the strange man would break their clan and spread destruction among them," (Achebe 138). The people killed the white man and tied the iron horse on their sacred tree. The Oracle said, "It said that other white men were on their way," (Achebe 138). The white man said nothing when he was going to die. The white man said something to them, but they couldn't understand them. For a time nothing happened, they did not see anyone else. But on one morning three white men and there followers came. Few people saw these white men and their followers. For weeks nothing happened. But then at the market Abame, three white men and there followers surrounded the market. The people thought they used a powerful medicine that made them invisible. They started shooting at the market and everybody was killed, excepted the old and sick people. (Achebe 138)

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