Igbo culture

Nigeria is the home of many languages and cultures. This nation contains up to 250 languages, deserts, plains, music, etc. This country is often referred to as “Giant of Africa”. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and the 7th most populous in the world. Although it is populous it has its perks concerning religion. This country is roughly divided between Christians and Muslims. A minority practice religions indigenous to Nigeria. This country was created when the British defeated…

Both pieces of literature parade the problems that can arise when different cultures come together. In Things Fall Apart, conflict between the village and the Christian missionaries lead to people dividing up and fighting with each other. When Okonkwo returns from exile after seven years and tries to rally the people to rebel, he…

setting taking place in Umuofia in the late 1890’s, Okonkwo who is the main character and also the protagonist. The novel depicts life of Okonkwo, a leader and local wrestling champion in Umuofia. Specifically around this time period agriculture,culture, and tradition and was an important role in Africa on survival. In some ways people living there life in the village of Umuofia was very unique but also different in numerous ways, with certain jobs that they would have to be met. Around this…

depicts a drastically different African culture than those portrayed by early European colonists. Things Fall Apart illustrates the methodical conversion of the Igbo people from traditional values to those of the Christian faith and the ill-fated struggle of a man named Okonkwo to preserve the traditional practices of his culture. Through Things Fall Apart, Achebe counters the common portrayal of Africa as an uncivilized continent through the existence of Igbo justice systems, traditions, and…

The Igbo people are a tribe of people who live in southeastern Nigeria.They speak the Igbo language which is a part of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Igbo people are known for being subsistence farmers, farming yams, taro, cassava, maize, okra, beans, pumpkins, and melons. Yams are the Igbo’s main food, Men are responsible for the cultivation of yams. Traditionally the Igbo people live in spread out compounds. Before colonization, the Igbo were not united but live…

persons and forces. Okonkwo is the main character in Things Fall Apart, and he has different views of the women in his life. When Unoka, Okonkwo’s father, was still alive, he was a cheater and shameful. He was unreliable and an embarrassment to the Igbo society and to Okonkwo. Growing up, Okonkwo was faced with having a failure as a father; Unoka was called “Agbala” by the other kids, which meant man with no title (World Eras 3). He eventually compared his father to the women in his clan, for…

Okonkwo’s contrasting views of pre-colonial and post-colonial Nigeria. As a state is colonized, its cultures and traditions are lost within the struggle for power and its subsequent chaos, resulting in a downturn of lives for the natives previously residing in the colonized state. As a result of the colonization of Okonkwo’s clan, the new European laws challenges many of the clan’s original laws and cultures. When Okonkwo is prepared to return to Iguedo, his home village, Obierika, his close…

Stripped of Your Culture, Stripped of Your Soul “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, as well as gentle manners.” Robert A. Heinlein,the dean of science fiction writers, believes. The overthrowing of a culture isn’t just a greed for power and land, but a misunderstanding of hearts. At the turn of the 19th century, white missionaries came to colonize Africa, which began the Scramble of Africa.…

Things Fall Apart, the basic idea is that historic African cultures have been portrayed wrongly in European literature and Achebe sets out to present the African culture of the Igbo people in its true form to both Africans and Europeans. What is universal about the ideas in the book? The ideas in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart are universally held because they all relate to the corruption of a man and his culture. The corruption of the culture is provided by European missionaries and how the changes…

the lands of Africa and Europe. Chinua Achebe demonstrates how British colonization has affected and divided the Igbo people and their culture through his fiction. One of Achebe’s works titled Arrow of God is the fictional story of neighboring tribes going to battle with one another only to be imposed on by the white men’s authority which leads to the weakened state of Igbo culture and religion. The white men interfere with a war taking place between Okperi and Umuaro “The white man, not…