At the end of Things Fall Apart, the District Commissioner decides to write a book about his experiences in bringing 'civilization' to the 'barbaric' peoples. He names the book The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of Lower Niger. By using the word pacification, he believes the Africans are an angry people whose warlike ways must be quelled and stopped. When the word primitive is used, it is implied that these Africans are less than people and are savages. The commissioner shows no respect for Okonkwo's death, besides the fact it would make interesting reading for the people back home. And he also believes his story just makes up a small part of his larger tale. He believes a paragraph or so is sufficient enough to tell Okonkwo's story. Saying the District Commissioner is going to use this title for his book, Achebe portrays the colonizing forces in Africa in a bad light. He shows they are inconsiderate and uncaring for the mess Achebe believes the white man has created in Africa. They are only concerned with glory for themselves back home and how they pacified these primitive people, how Achebe thinks the white man believes they saved the barbarians.
