Achebe's view of the missionaries in "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe.

Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, is a story about a Nigerian Igbo tribe forced to endure, and live with European Christians. These Europeans were colonizing Africa with the intentions of setting up Christian missionaries. While their intentions were genuine, their presence was devastating to the Ibo culture. Achebe did not like how the Europeans and the Igbo people interacted with each other. The European missionaries viewed their religion as superior to the Igbo religion …

…the Europeans, they started to fight among each other. Achebe did not like the missionaries because they divided his people and they changed the whole Igbo society system. They only used religion to win over the minds of the people and to colonize their country. This is true because when I read the book, I noticed that the missionaries were controlling the court system. They did trials for the people of Umuofia for their crimes.