Journals

Date: 11 August 2008

Entry:#28

Reflection:
Okonkwo threw a party get together in his motherland before returning to Umuofia. As tradition has it, one or several of the elderly thanks the provider of the party and can also make a small speech. The final speaker at the party told everyone he feared for them; he feared for the younger generation. The Christians were on a hunt for converters. The missionaries knew it would be difficult to convert the elderly but the young would not be so difficult for they are still vulnerable and easy to appeal to. The elderly speaker knows this too and that’s why he fears the younger generation might betray their ancestors and teach their children to do the same.