The New and the Old Nigeria:Achebe "Dead Man's Path" In the story of Chinua Achebe "Dead Man's Path" the school principal and his wife represent the bureaucratic thinking of the new Nigeria in many ways. First of all, they were young energetic people, which makes a big differences. They both had many new ideas, which included beautiful gardens. He referred to the gardens as "modern and delightful." The principal was well educated and very …showed first 75 words of 652 total…

…showed last 75 words of 652 total…and new school. This story teaches that the new ways of one person is not always the best, therefore resulting in the last thing that he wanted. The supervisor wrote a nasty report on the state of the premise, but more importantly he was upset with the tribe being upset towards the school. Neither side wanted a tribal-war situation between the tribe and the school but that's the result of people not listening and cooperating.