duced a certain ambience which gave power and cunning to his fingers." Thus, Edogo is drawing power form the old traditions. However, he is also leaving the old ways behind. He is adopting the ways of the white man. It is the only way for him to survive in the changing world.Ezeulu's dream after he returns from Okperi convinces him that he should not submit to the people's wishes. After delaying the New Yam Festival, he interprets the people's anguish as a kind of scapegoating. They are blaming someone else for their own faults and mistakes. Ezeulu's downfall is disastrous not only for the people but for traditional religion, because the hungry people dedicate their crop to the Christian God. They see Ezeulu's insanity as the judgment of the ancestors against his disregard for the clan he is supposed to serve. It is really just the last straw, since his son is dead and he must bury him. Now the old priest has nothing left, not even a young man to look at the stars for him when he is old and blind.Ezeulu's strategy of resistance has led instead to the opposite of what he wanted. Instead of reviving the cult of the ancestors, he has seen it replaced with Christianity. Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe presents some cultural dynamic problems, such as religious conflict, disunity, and war among villages of the Igbo nation. The biggest problem is the colonial impact and cultural conflict against the British imperial rule. The novel illustrates themes like foreign cultural conflicts, western influences on African cultural traditions, patience, masculine feminine divine principles of African culture, and religions contradictions. Cultural conflict includes the colonial impact and its effects upon all aspects of Igbo and African life.Arrow of God focuses on Nigeria's early experience with colonialism, from first contact with the British to widespread British administration. It starts after World War I, a time when the British ruled...
