a group of africans and whites came to the village then immediately left
many people came later and killed the entire village.
Obierika brings news that the village of Abame has been destroyed by white men who came with guns and horses. Many of the villagers were killed and their homes burned.
Obierika is friends with Okonwko. Obierika came to give Okonkwo the news and funds from selling his yams. Further Obierika gave Okonwko and the rest of the village news about how the village of Abame was slaughtered by white men.
When in Mbanta, Obierika brings money from selling Okonkwo's yams. He also brings news about the slaughter of Abame. Usually Obierika chats with Okonkwo without bringing anything in particular.
Okonkwo's duty is to stay alive so that he and his family may go back to their village.
Obierika tells Okonkwo that the Ibo could not regain control over Abame because the white men had a powerful "medicine" called the Maxim gun, which had the ability to kill multiple people at once from a great distance. This made it virtually impossible for the Ibo to defeat the white men in battle.
The village of Abame was destroyed in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe because its leaders killed the white man who came to their village, mistaking him for a threat. In retaliation, the white man's colonial force attacked and burned down the village as a warning to other villages resisting colonization.
Many white people came later, and found the armored horse tied to the tree. They later came back to the market with many men with guns and slaughtered everyone at the market that day. Only the old, the sick, and women, whose chi were awake and told them not to go to the market that day, were spared slaughter.
Abame was massacred in revenge for the killing of a white man on an iron horse. Abame was foolish for killing a man who said nothing. The men of Abame, being foretold that white men would bring doom to their village, foolishly killed a white man and his horse, tying the horse to a tree. In response, three white men and a very large numbers of other men surrounded the market, then opened fire. Everybody at the market place was killed except the old and the sick who were at home and a handful of men and women whose chi were wide awake and brought to the market.
Obierika had heard stories of the white men from the neighboring villages. The stories described the white men as powerful and aggressive, capable of capturing land and imposing their laws on the people. They were also seen as bringing new technologies and goods, but at a great cost to the local communities.
Because the people in the village feared that others like him would come to find him and/o would kill them and they tied up the horse so it wouldn't run away to go call them. Their oracle had told them that there were going to be others to come and wipe out the village.
During the second year of exile, Okonkwo's friend Obierika came to visit him. Obierika came to inform Okonkwo about the destruction of their village, Abame, by a white man's messenger. He also brought news about the hardships faced by the clan due to the presence of missionaries in their land.
There were 9 Igbo villages in Things Fall Apart. The main ones were: Umuofia: Okonkwo's home. Mbanta: Okonkwo's motherland. Abame: The slaughtered village. Mbaino: The village who killed an Umuofian clanswoman. Also: Ire: Home of Ogbuefi Ndulue.