Questions+and+Answers

== 1) At the beginning of Part II, Okonkwo has fled his “fatherland" Umofia for committing a "female" ochu, and he has taken his family to his "motherland" Mbanta. Why? And why does Okonkwo despair? How does his mother's brother Uchendu respond to Okonkwo in his despair? ==

== Okonkwo feld to his motherland because he was banned from his fatherland for committing a female ochu. He went to his motherland because he had relatives and friends there that would be able to help him develop a new life. Okonkwo despaired because he was close to becoming one of the lords of the clan and he did not want to throw it all away with his female ochu. Okonkwo gets a lot of comfort from Ochendu who tells him that it is okay to be in despair. Young children run to their mothers when they are feelings despaired. ==

== 3) What has happened to the Abame clan? Review "The Igbo People Meet the Europeaons: The Era of Informal Empire," pp. xxxix-xlix. How do Uchedu and Okonkwo account differently for the foolishness of the Abame? Whose reaction seems wise in responding to new challenges to old ways of living? What does Uchendu means when he says, "There is no story that is not true"? (ch15, p99) ==



= The Abame clan does not exist anymore. Ochendu did not find any humor in killing poeple who did not say anything. Okonkwo thought it was foolish for the Abame not to have weapons to kill the intruders after they had been warned they were coming. Ochendu is wiser because if the people that had not said anything, had said something then maybe they would of helped the Abame clan rather than just wasting space. Ochendu says, "there is no story that is not true" because he means that all stories had to come from something or somewhere they could not have just been something from thin air. =

== 4) Why does his friend Obierika visit Okonkwo in exile the first time? And the second time? What are Nwoye's motives for converting to Christianity? Trace the stages in the Africans. Trace the stages in the Africans' reactions to the Christian missionaries coming to Umuofia and Mbanta, and to the missionaries' evangelical efforts to convert the Africans. What are the sources of misunderstandings between the Igbo and the missionaries? What kinds of Africans are attracted to the new religion and why? Why does NWYOE convert to christianity? How does Okonkwo react to Nwyoe's conversion? ==

== Obierika comes to visit Okonkwo in exile to bring him money they had profited from his fields. The second time he comes is to alert him that Nwoye was with Christians. Nwoye's motives for converting to Christianity are because he can relate to the Christian religion more in a sense that what they talk or preach about answers his questions or doubts. The Africans reacted to the Christians as something new and some what interesting because their ways were very different from the Africans, they did not at first take the Christians seriously. After they were amused by the the Christians they were confused because they started building in the "Evil Forest" and did not die, this confused them because then they started to think about the lies in their own religion and the ways they had known their whole lives. After the confusion they became hateful toward these new people because more and more Africans were converting to Christianity, they thought maybe their African religion would be forgotten or replaced. The sources of misunderstanding between them was the language and the differences in their beliefs they both confuse each other. Their beliefs are different the Christians have more free thinking. Their language because the Christians translate the African language perfectly that it sounds awkward. Nwoye joins them because he thinks that they may be able to answer his questions about life in general. When Okonkwo finds out about Nwoye joininh he disowns him. ==

== 5) "The young church in Mbanta had a few crisis early in its life" (ch18; p 110). What are these crises? Why are the people of Mbanta largely content to allow the Christiants to remain in their midst at this point--the end of Pt II? REview "the Missionary Factor," pp. xli-xliv. What are the differnce between the religion of the Mbanta peopel and that of the Christian missionaries? ==

== The differences in the Mbanta religion and the Christian is that the Mbanta have outcasts the Christians accept outcasts, the Mbanta people kill twins the Christians accept them, also the Christians believe in one god while the Mbanta believe in many gods. ==

== 6) Uchendu and a speech by an elder of teh Umunna (ch19; p118) give us insight into the changes that they have seen in recent generations of their people. What are these changes and why do they cause the elderst to fear for the younger generation and the future of the clan? How might these changes prepare the way for the white man's success in imposing his rule in Africa? ==