To be honest, I started out hating this book. I read it, and the only thing it seemed to be about was an arrogant man who grew lots of yams. As the book progressed, it grew less about the yams, and more about the struggles of a community to overcome an invaders attempt to change them. I feel like this is something every people has dealt with, and I've learned about it a thousand times, yet Things Fall Apart really put in prospective what it would be like and how it came about.
They always say hindsight is 20-20, and this is true to the narrator. He explains how the missionaries came in peace, and how they found themselves in  their good graces of some of the natives. It reminds me of the idiom 'the straw that broke the camel's back'. The clan was slowly falling apart, with more and more things seeming ineffective, and when the Christians joined the community, it's long-standing ways fell apart.