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pekin
pekin
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Is Umuofia a village or is it a district?

in some parts of the novel, Umuofia is said to b a village, and in others, it is said to b a group of the nine villages.

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Posted by pekin on Sunday January 28, 2007 at 4:09 AM and tagged with hamlet, things fall apart.

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  1. chloemink Student

    I think Umuofia is a village. The story of the novel Things Fall Apart takes place in the Nigerian village of Umuofia in the late 1880s, before missionaries and other outsiders have arrived.

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    http://www.enotes.com/things-fall/35732

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    Posted by chloemink on Thursday February 1, 2007 at 3:00 PM

  2. zaynah
    zaynah Student

    I think that it is a village...where there are villagers..because if we pay attention to the novel we can see that it is mostly said to be a village. if it's saying a group of nine villagers already we can see that there is the word villagers n we call people villagers only when they live in a village so i think that it is a village..

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    Posted by zaynah on Wednesday February 21, 2007 at 5:37 AM

  3. revolution
    revolution Teacher
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    I am not that sure about the type of place Umuofia is called. First, they said that it is a cluster of nine villages in Niger, which means a district but in other sources, it said that it was an village in the 1880s

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    Posted by revolution on Wednesday July 22, 2009 at 4:47 AM