Things Fall Apart chapter 15

This chapter shows the arrival of the white man in one of the villages. Obierika comes to give Okonkwo the cowries and says that a white man came on an iron horse. They kill the man and tie his iron horse to a tree. Obierika says that before they kill the man, he talked "through his nose" and muttered a word that sounded like Mbaino. Then, the white men came back and shot everyone at the market and Abame was wiped out. The iron horse that the white man brought is most likely a bicycle. In retrospect, a bicycle is a very tame invention that they could have introduced to the villagers. An interesting part is when Obierika mentions that a white man came, and Okonkwo immediately assumes that it was an albino. What will happen when the white men venture further into Africa and go through Okonkwo's current and former village? How will the differences in culture further separate the two people? Because of the ignorance that the Ibo people show to technology, the white men are most likely going to disrespect them and view their confusion as unintelligence. Since the white man's burden is what drives them to Africa, will the culture further strengthen their resolve to westernize Africa?