“"Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory." […] They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song.”

— Chinua Achebe, book Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 17 (p. 139)

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