Response to "Stanley Meets Mutesa" by David Rubadiri, and comparison of "Stanley Meets Mutesa" and "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

In the poem, "Stanley Meets Mutesa" by David Rubadiri, a British man, perhaps Stanley, and his party walk for a long time in both harsh and hopeful conditions. When they reach King Mutesa's kingdom, they are not welcomed warmly because the villagers do not trust the British men. Finally, the British men are allowed into the village without a fight. Secondly, throughout the poem the mood is different. In the first two stanzas the mood …

…white men. At the end I felt pathos for the innocent villagers because they let in the cunning and greedy white men who want to colonize the village. Similarly, in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the villagers allow the white men to stay. But in the novel we learn that the white men provoke the eventual downfall of the villagers' religion and culture, which might not be true in the poem's case.