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The ending paragraph is absolutely incredible and sort of reflects on how the book treats colonialism. Like, treating this as fiction you have a normal story for 70% of it and then suddenly English people arrive and the story completely changes. Okonkwo stops being an active subject and becomes an acted-upon object. It's someone else's story now, one he is not allowed to understand. The final paragraph says this very explicitly, becoming a (small) part of the district commissioner's book. It's a
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Supposedly one of the first African novels written in English, it is the story of lives and tribulations of a small African tribal people of the Ibo village of Nigeria. Okankwo, the chief protagonist is proud of his ancestry and tries to hold up to his traditional values and rituals, as best as he could, many a time sacrificing his personal likings and opinions, for the whole. Life goes on well for him and his three wives and numerous offspring, until one day, an unexpected event makes him an ex
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