In the book, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe thoroughly makes it clear important strength is in the Ibo Tribe. Throughout the story we learn how Okonkwo has persevered from his father's misfortune and poverty, to becoming one of the tribes greatest war heroes. The strength he showed when “Throwing the cat,” and bringing the heads of his enemies back, made him powerful in different aspects. One being having several wives, which in his tribe alone made him both powerful and successful. In the beginning of chapter two Okonkwo claimed, “This meeting is for men” (Achebe 9). The man he was talking to had no titles of strength or success and so therefore Okunowo considered him a women. The New Yam Festival is the most important day for the Ibo tribe,
