Location(s): Nigeria
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 19th century
The story of Okonkwo, a “strong man” in an Ibo village, and the clash of civilization between his world and that of the European missionaries.
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Great writing, transported me to a period in African history that is amazingly evoked.
Chinua Achebe is attempting two things in this novel, to depict a society that was barely remembered in his own day, and to tell an almost classical tragedy around the strong main character. Both are strikingly done.
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