Why do the clan decide to grant the request of the missionaries and give them some land on which to build a church?

In, the
missionaries arrive in Umuofia and ask for a plot of land to build their church. The village
elders do not want the missionaries near the clan and decide to offer them a plot of land
located in the Evil Forest. The Evil Forest is a forbidden, ominous place, where the clan buries
individuals with diseases and is also used as the dumping ground for the powerful...