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(5) Igbu Culture - Coggle Diagram
(5) Igbu Culture
Gender
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"But his wives and young children were not as strong, and so they suffered."
"Do what you are told, woman."
"Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala. That was how Okonkwo fritst came to know that agbala was not only another word for women, it could also mean a man who had taken to title."
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"She wore the anklet of her husband's titles, which the first wife alone cold wear."
"Okonkwo first came to know that agbala was not only another name for a woman, it could also mean a man who had taken no title."
"He had a slight stammer and whenever he was angry and could not get his words out quickly enough, he would use his fists"
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Religion
"It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw." (13)
"Near the barn was a small house, the "medicine house" or shrine where Okonkwo kept the wooden symbols of his personal god and of his anscestral spirits. He worshipped them with sacrifices of kola nut, food and palm-wine, and offered prayers to them on behalf of himself, his tree wives and eight children." (14)
"Umuofia was feared by all its neighbors. It was powerful in war and in magic, and its priests and medicine were feared in all the surrounding country" (Achebe 11).