Chapter 16: Three years into Okonkwo's exile, Obierika come back to see him. Obierika comes back because he had seen Nwoye with some of the christian converts. He is not going to talk about it around Okonkwo yet. Nwoye's mom tells him a little of the story.  Six white missionaries came to where Okonkwo was. They were telling the people all kinds of crazy things to get them to convert to christianity. They were saying that they were believing in or worshipping a false god. The ywere often laughing about some of the things they were saying. Somehow all of it is making sense to Nwoye and making him want to be a part of them. He is instantly sucked in. The poetry of the new religion seems to answer his questions about the deaths of Ikemefuna and the twin newborns soothing him like the drops of frozen rain melting on the dry palate.