Even though Ikemefuna was completely innocent and had nothing to do with that woman’s death, he is ultimately punished because the villagers of Umuofia view his murder as just. Kwame Appiah argues that a cosmopolitan way of life is the morally ethical manner to approach life. Cosmopolitans believe that people shouldn’t be punished until they are undoubtedly proven guilty. Had the village of Umuofia valued the same beliefs found in cosmopolitanism, Ikemefuna would have never been taken away from his village and executed as a result of someone else’s murder. When one applies Kwame Appiah’s belief on unjustified punishment in Cosmopolitanism to the unlawful killing of Ikemefuna in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the death of Ikemefuna would have been
Even though Ikemefuna was completely innocent and had nothing to do with that woman’s death, he is ultimately punished because the villagers of Umuofia view his murder as just. Kwame Appiah argues that a cosmopolitan way of life is the morally ethical manner to approach life. Cosmopolitans believe that people shouldn’t be punished until they are undoubtedly proven guilty. Had the village of Umuofia valued the same beliefs found in cosmopolitanism, Ikemefuna would have never been taken away from his village and executed as a result of someone else’s murder. When one applies Kwame Appiah’s belief on unjustified punishment in Cosmopolitanism to the unlawful killing of Ikemefuna in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the death of Ikemefuna would have been