Things Fall Apart for the Khoikhoi...
After Europeans began to colonize the area where the Khoikhoi lived, starting first with the cape, and next with "the whole area around Turtle Bay" (CHNM). The influx of new people from a new land disturbed the economic, social, and religious affairs of the Khoikhoi. The herding-gathering techniques of the people stopped once Europeans began claiming land and animals for themselves. Utilization of native Africans as workers also destroyed the Khoikhoi's economic affairs, and with it, the tribe's religious beliefs (CHNM). Colonists sought to convert native Africans to the Dutch Reformed faith. Soon the richness of the Khoikhoi's culture and prosperity was limited; the Europeans siphoned as much as they could from the native tribe.
Chinua Achebe, in his book Things Fall Apart, illustrates the same problems that the Khoikhoi experienced, using a tribe of people living in Nigeria. The book's main character, Okonkwo, finds himself struggling to fit in to not only his society, but soon the overpowering imperialism that the Europeans brought with them. Eventually, the hero of the book kills himself, unable to cope with the copious cultural change overcoming his entire reality.
