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The Igbo in Things Fall Apart The Umuofia village was one of the nine villages created by Achebe and was to represent the Igbo villages. The people are native to south-eastern Nigeria and their customs and traditions seemed strange to the Europeans when they were conquering the area. These villages were living off a farming community, and all throughout the story that was the main source of food and money.The farms consisted of men food, yams, and women food, cassavas in the farm. Also, the men

According to the text, the Igbo believed in fate; that nothing happened by chance as every happenstance was the result of Chukwu or God's will. Yet the Igbo also believed that ancestors, lesser gods, and their own chi or personal god also influenced the lives of the living. Thus, if an individual lived in harmony with his ancestors, lesser gods and ultimately Chukwu, that individual would be blessed with good fortune, health and an abundance of children. If,

Throughout history man has developed wrong conceptions of things mainly because man lacks correct knowledge. Such becomes the case for European culture’s ideas of Africa. Chinua Achebe combats these preconceived notions through their Greek like society, the language in which the book is written, and the beliefs of the people both religious and moral. The European idea was that Africans were brutish animals that were not comparable to human beings. They viewed their society as strange, dark, and

The governance through unwritten laws breaks the European perceptions of Africa as lacking governance and laws. Also with their arrival in Africa, the Europeans perceived African societies as lacking a legal system, and therefore, aimed at introducing their legal system to them. This is evident in Things Fall Apart when the District Commissioner uses treachery to arrest the six Umuofia elders. The District commissioner says, “We have brought a peaceful administration to you and your people so that

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), is a controversial chemical that has been adopted for use by African Heads of State and Government in attempt to treat victims of the disease malaria. In the past, DDT was widely used during World War II as a means of treatment for malaria among civilians and soldiers; later, farmers started using DDT as an agriculture insecticide. American biologist Rachael Carson wrote about the consequences of using DDT on the environment as well as public health, and her

Nigeria would be of a seed if there was any Nigeria before 1914. Britain was so ambitious to change our way of life; hence Biafra problem started. Maybe Biafra would be beautiful and civilized if there was no Fredrick Lugard in 1914. Lugard tampered with what was organic that has led to early graves over 5 million Biafrans, that was when Biafrans rejected fact of being unjust. The death of the over five million Biafrans cannot be in vain. Then read the New York Times report of 1966, 1968, 1969

Imagine being with your family in your home and a neighbor comes and tells you that aliens have invaded a distant town and have taken half of its population and killed the other half. Chances are that you would think that they had lost their mind and would ignore them. In our society today we would find something like that to be highly unlikely. Now imagine that you and your family have good relations with the town that had been invaded. You have played sports against them growing up and you do your

In the the book Things Fall Apart, the main character in the book is Okonkwo and he is a leader and a type of person who always stands by tradition. Okonkwo is best known for his manliness and tough inflexible character during the book. Okonkwo is the best fighter in all of Umuofia(He was still young but he had won fame as the greatest wrestler in the nine villages. pg6). If there was a hard place in a rock, it would be Okonkwo but at the end of the book he kills himself. Okonkwo’s sense of identity

SHOULD THERE BE ANY WAY FORWARD FOR THE GREATER AWGU COMMUNITY IN THE US? It baffles that some of us make statements as if the greater Awgu people are at loggerheads and competing with one another, which projects the greater Awgu as an object of ridicule; how can someone, within the greater Awgu community, praise a person of another from the greater Awgu for besmirching what is deemed as a collective effort to unite the greater Awgu people in the US? Ironically, a house rising against itself can

are the most practiced, and the Oromo celebrate Islamic and Christian holidays along with Oromo National Day. The Igbo tribe practice their own religion which includes Ala or Ana the earth goddess, whom gets temples and shrines. The supreme being, Chukwu or Chineka, and the God of creation do not get temple or shrines. There are multiple other numerous other spirits and or deity ancestors who protect living descendants. Lastly the Wolof tribe is nearly all Muslims, they observe major muslim festivals