The white man’s ways were foreign to the Ibo culture. All they had known was that barns, wives, and wealth is what builds a successful life and depending on how much of each a man had it measured how prosperous they were as a person. In chapter one of Things Fall Apart it talks about Okonkwo’s father, Unoka and how he was failure during his life. In the book it states “A man with titles was placed significantly higher in the social structure of Umuofia than someone who was like Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, who had never achieved anything significant in his life.” Which not only tells the importance of titles, but supports the statement of Unoka being a failure. The only respectable thing about Unoka was that he was a man. In the Ibo culture, women
