Curious

Here's what I wonder:
Why, if Achebe lives in the U.S. and was educated here and was a professor for quite some years and has a wife (yes, one wife) does he choose to portray these tribes as the victims?

Maybe because in some ways they are.

I wonder what Achebe's take on the whole "conflicting customs" issue is; it seems rather unclear in the book. But that last line, The Pacification of teh Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger is so stinging, you have to think he is all for the preservation of these customs, however vicious and insane we might find them to be...

But it never mentions how he came to live/study in the United States. A little missionary action for him too? If so, it doesn't seem like it turned out too horrible for him, a famous author and respected man. Curious.