Locusts FC

Most believe that locust are the sign of plague or death. In the book Things Fall Apart the first swarm of locusts should mean the death of crops and plants. This group of people are farmers and it would seem that it would be devastation to their way of life, but it is not. They look at the coming of locusts as a feast. The first wave of harbingers came and settled and the people were joyous. Then the swarm of locusts came and descended upon the people and they feasted. When the white man first came upon the villages he was said to be a harbinger as well. The locusts would soon follow. But in this case the men did not look upon the coming locusts, white men, as a feast but rather a famine. It is interesting the author would write about both so differently. He could of said a number of things about the coming of the white man but he chose to use the word harbinger and locust again. What was his purpose?