Dead Man's path

when i first red the story "dead men's Path" by Chinua Achebe i'm confused on what is happening in the school and how come they closed it along time ago.the deeper i get from the story i realized that the pathway that was beside the school has a history. that some of the so called "ninuno" of that village is buried deep within that path and the villagers felt disrespected because they build a school beside it so they plan to closed the school but the owners didn't agree on this opposition, instead they continue they're work. so as I've understand it. the school got bad luck for their insolence to the villagers.the comparison of Ibo culture and our own is the villagers in Africa lived in thousand and in hundreds without a single leader or ruler compared to us we are very big in terms of population and we have our very own president or ruler. but they have a council of chiefs, women association and secrets society. but some of this societies is based from age. like elders as they call. the Ibos are profoundly religious. these polytheistic people worship many Gods. They believe that there are three levels of divine beings: the highest level is the supreme God, or "Chukwu." underneath chukwu are lesser Gods, called "Umuagbara", and under these are the "Ndi Ichie", the spirit of dead peoples. The Ibos also believed in reincarnation. comparing it in our own society. Filipinos are also religious person that serves many Gods. but these Gods are not classified in levels. it is by religion that their Gods is classified. so comparing the settings in the story on our own culture is that we also care about our buried ancestors but we don't force to closed a school just because it is beside the path on the buried peoples. i guess that the reason the characters reacted that way is because they believe in reincarnation and they believe that the spirits of there love ones is still among them