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Author: Chinua Achebe
First Published: 1958
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Tragedy
Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
Setting: Umuofia, an Ibo society on the lower Nile River
Principal Characters: Okonkwo, Obereika, Nwoye, Ikemefuna
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Postcolonial literature
Subjects: Culture, Africa or Africans, Tradition, Politics, Colonies or colonization, Race, Suicide, Nineteenth century, Exile or expatriates, Missions or missionaries, Religion, Villages, Law or legislation, Christianity, Death or dying, Rulers, Egypt or Egyptians, Government, Modernization
Locales: Nile River, Umuofia, Africa

Okonkwo’s father was cowardly, foolish, and poor in his life, an outcast at his death. When his father died, Okonkwo, on the other hand, though still a young man, had three wives, two barns full of yams, two of his people’s titles, and a reputation as the strongest wrestler and bravest warrior in the nine villages of Umuofia. Okonkwo took great pride in these accomplishments, sometimes forgetting the assistance of his personal god, or chi, and of the man from whom he had borrowed yams to start his own farm.

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