Things Fall Apart | Chapter 22 Summary and Analysis

New Characters:
Reverend James Smith: Mr. Brown’s successor

Okeke: Mr. Smith’s interpreter

Ajofia: the leading egwugwu of Umuofia

Summary
Reverend Smith openly condemns Mr. Brown’s policy of compromise, and he suspends a woman from the church who has allowed her heathen husband to mutilate her dead ogbanje child. Overzealous converts who smarted under Mr. Brown now flourish. Enoch, the son of the snake priest who is believed to have eaten the sacred python, sparks a great conflict between the church and clan in Umuofia....


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