Things Fall Apart

Most of the setting takes place in Umuofia, found in Niger. Okwonko has risen from nothing a high position. Through hard work, he has become a great man among his people. He has taken three wives and his barn is full of yams, the staple crop. He rules is family with an iron fist. One day, a neighboring clan commits an offense against Umuofia. To avoid war, the offending clan gives Umuofia one virgin and …showed first 75 words of 684 total…

…showed last 75 words of 684 total…the whites. Okwonko wants war. During the meeting, court messengers come to order the men to break up their gathering. Enraged, Okwonko kills the court messenger. The other court messengers escape, and because the other people of his clan did not seize them, Okwonko knows that his people will not choose war. Because he realized that things are falling apart and don’t want to surrender to whiter culure, he returns home and hangs himself.