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“He was a man of action, a man of war”
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“ ‘She should have been a boy, ‘ Okonkwo said to himself”
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“An abominable religion has settled among you… I fear for you; I fear for the clan”
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“She was the priestess of Agbala. In ordinary life, Chielo was a widow with two children”
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“The Oracle said… white men were on their way. They were locusts”
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“His fame rested on solid personal achievements”
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“He was a man who had built up his own personal wealth”
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“Ezinma was an only child and the centre of her mother’s world”
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“It is not bravery when a man fights with a woman”
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“Here was a man whose chi said nay despite his own affirmation”
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“saw things as black and white. And black was evil”
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“we have fallen apart”
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“the center cannot hold”
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“That was one of the greatest men in Umofia. You drove him to kill himself”
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“he mourned for the warlike men of Umofia, who had… become soft like women”
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“Umofia was like a startled animal… not knowing which way to run”
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“The birth of her children, which should be a woman’s glory”
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“ ‘No, that is a boy’s job.’ Okonkwo was specially fond of Ezinma”
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“Ekwefi was the only one who would have the audacity to bang on his door”
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“if she heard Ezinma cry she would… defend her against all the gods in the world”
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“How can he when he does not even speak our tongue”
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“proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten”
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“ ‘Ezinma is dying…’ all the tragedy and sorrow of her life were packed in those words”
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“He has thrown 400 cats”
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“Yam, the king of crops, was a man’s crop”
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“He did not sleep at night. He tried not to think about Ikemefuna”
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“Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand”
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“He grew rapidly like a yam tendril in the rainy season”
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“Okonkwo’s wife… took care of the household”
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“our queen, the most powerful ruler in the world”
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“Even as a little boy he had resented his father’s failure and weakness.
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“Okonkwo drew his matchet and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak.
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“Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine… he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell”
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“Nwoye, who was now called Isaac”
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“he drank palm-wine from morning till night”
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“When Unoka died he had taken no title at all and he was heavily in debt”
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“Okonkwo’s first son, Nwoye, was… causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness”
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“he mourned for the clan which he saw breaking up and falling apart”
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“How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman”
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“The tragedy of his first son had occured”
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“good men who worshipped the true God lived forever in His happoy kingdom”
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“One of the greatest crimes was to unmask an egwugwu in public… this was what Enoch did”
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“have brought a peaceful administration to you and your people so that you may be happy”
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“One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love for superfluous words”
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“Either of them succeeded in converting the other but they learned more about their different beliefs”
context - Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’
“strong, lusty, red-eyes devils” portrays African people as primitive and in need of colonisation - Achebe challengest his
context - Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The White Man’s Burden’
“half devil half child” - presents the Africans as uncivilised and in need of colonisation
context - W.B Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming’
“Things fall apart ; the center cannot hold” - highlights how the fight for cultural independence leads to violence and anarchy