Throughout history, British imperialism has influenced the culture and heritage of many countries for the worse. Competition for resources and markets drove empires to colonize different parts of the world to systematically expand their influence and force the colonized to forget their heritage. One of the most important African writers, Chinua Achebe was greatly concerned with the political and social effects of British colonialism on Igbo society. His novel, Things Fall Apart, is not exceptionally positive, using history to describe a pioneer control that enters and then achieves the demise of Igbo society (essay How Chinua Achebe Describes Colonialism Using Things Fall Apart) . Achebe paints a picture of how the colonizers treat the colonized and what the local population is forced to get used to in the new culture that has been imposed on them. Throughout the book you can see various impacts on the tribe and the connections between the white man and the black man (Colonialism in Things Fall Apart). The constant question of "Does the white man understand our customs concerning...