[Music] in part to chapter 15 of Chinua Achebe's things fall apart Oba Rica visits Okonkwo during his second year in exile and the two men speak with Chen do old Chen do notes that men in his day had friends and distant clans while the current generation stays home and is afraid of his next-door neighbor obey Rica tells them that the album a clan has been wiped out a white man appeared in a nearby village he was not an albino and he was riding an Iron Horse when the Oracle was consulted he declared that the man would break their clan and spread destruction among them the Oracle warned that other white men would follow he called them locusts clan members killed the strange white man and tied his Iron Horse probably a bicycle to a tree but Shendu asks what the stranger said at first he's told that the white man said nothing actually the stranger did speak but he wasn't understood obey Rico later tells them some ordinary men like us led three white men to the clan the white men saw the strangers bicycle tied to a tree and they left returned with reinforcements and surrounding the market in a bemay they shot everyone there which endo says never kill a man who says nothing those men of Abha may were fools Okonkwo agrees he says they should have armed themselves and been ready for danger obey Rica's afraid he's heard the stories of the white men killing indiscriminately and taking villagers across the seas as slaves but he never believed them as the chapter closes okonkwo shows some emotion although in a subtle fashion Oba Rica and Okonkwo have a genuine friendship Oba Rica handles Okonkwo's Affairs and insists there's no need for his friend to thank him part 2 continues to mark more change in the novel with the report that the white man has arrived in a bomb a and the Oracles prophecy that more will follow the Oracle metaphorically calls the white men locusts earlier in Chapter 7 the arrival of actual locusts brought joy but in the structure of the novel their appearance also foreshadows the arrival of the first missionaries turning the meaning of locusts and associating them with the paradox of colonialism the changes the white men bring through education and medicine comes with the rapacious oppression of indigenous people and the eradication of their culture a Chubby's use of locusts to symbolize this destruction also brings to mind the locusts appearance as one of the 10 plagues against Egypt in the book of Exodus on the cusp of dramatic change to ebo culture this chapter also shows the close bonds between Oba Rica and Okonkwo you