How to pronounce“okonkwo”in English

Okonkwo develops “one passion—to hate everything that Unoka had loved.

Okonkwo’s world, much like the ancient Greek world in Oedipus, is one where mistakes are always punished.

So Okonkwo grew up knowing that the whole village thought his dad was a loser, and the pain of it stuck with him.

And Okonkwo is advised not to participate, due to his close relationship with the boy, but he ultimately does the killing himself, because “He was afraid of being thought weak.”

Like Okonkwo and his community, we both as individuals and as communities also struggle to see other human beings as human beings and just as in Things Fall Apart, the consequences

Like Okonkwo in "Things Fall Apart," we African men neither process nor express our emotions.

And with Okonkwo’s story, Achebe grounds the reader really deeply in the ancient Igbo life and culture before there’s even any mention of missionaries.