Problem/Achebe's Monster

So, i was supposed to have a problem and i couldnt decide on what i wanted to work on about myself. So, i decided on the problem of love. How people fall in love, how people fall out of love, what to do about it and how to contol it, extremeley interests me. So in this problem, my charactors are, myself, Jenny, who is my current girlfrien, and Lauren, who is my ex-girlfriend. The setting is, I used to live at home and that is where my ex-gf lives, she goes to UCLA. Jenny lives next door to me here at UCSC. So my problem is here, home, and at UCLA.

Achebe's monster has to be the colonial powers of England, France, and other european powers. They came into Africa and within a few years they carved it up and had control over a group of people that most people in Europe had never heard of. These Europeans came for the cheap goods and labor these "primitive" africans had to offer. This more than likely would have been looked at as a monsterous act, to come in and declare yourself as the ruler and declare that they all had to pay you and work for you, or they are killed.