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=__**Things Fall Apart**__= Gia, Shandise, Natalie.A, Johnathan, Amna, Mark

__**Nigeria's background**__
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Nigeria is a country in West Africa and has the highest population of 140,003,542(from 2006 census). Nigeria is surrounded by Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.In 1960, Nigeria gained its independence from the United Kingdom. Nigeria has been ruled by military dictators, who came to Nigeria in 1966, then in 1999 Nigeria had a democracy again after 33 years of invasion.

In 1963, Africa declared itself a Federal Republic and parting from British rule. At that time Azikiwe, was the first president. the idea of Federal Republic came from the United States, with the president as the executive power, with people who can override the president, and with high and lower houses, to make laws and run the government. Then in the 1970s, when Nigeria had an oil boom, they joined OPEC and more and more money came flowing in the Nigerian states. as the oil production rose, Nigerian government become dependent on the oil and markets for economic gain.

In Nigerian politics, their culture, their trides and their religion and also their place in the government, are very important to them and are use in their government.

__**Natural Resources of Nigeria**__

 * [[image:file:moz-screenshot-2.jpg]]Petroleum
 * tin
 * columbite
 * iron ore
 * coal
 * limestone
 * lead
 * zinc
 * natural gas
 * hydro-power
 * arable land---33% of land is arable(1993)
 * 9,570 km2 is irrigated land
 * 3% of craps across country
 * 44% of pastures
 * 12% of Forests

__**Environmental Issues of Nigeria**__

 * soil degradation
 * deforestation
 * desertification
 * drought

FROM WIKISPACES.COM

__**Pictures of Nigerian tribes and culture**__



__**Vocabulary**__
//__Ogene:__// A musical instrument; a kind of gong "//Gome, gome, gome, gome,// boomed the hollow metal" (pg.9)

//__Agadi-Nwayi:__// Old women. “If the clan had disobeyed the oracle they would surely have been beaten, because  their dreaded //Agadi-Nwayi// would never fight what the Ibo call a fight of blame” (pg.12)

//__Ndichie:__// Elders. “The //Ndichie//, met to hear a report of Okonkwo’s mission” (pg.12)

//__Agbala:__// A name for a woman, also a man who had taken no title. “…He had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was //Agbala//.” (pg.13)

//__Obi:__// A hut. “Each of his three wives’s had her own hut, which together formed a half moon behind the //obi//.” (pg.14)

//__Nna-ayi:__// Our father “He addressed Nwakibie, calling him ‘our father’ Nna-ayi.”(pg.19)

//__Jigida:__// Waist beads “One of these days your jigida will catch fire on your waist, and then you will know.” (pg.71)

//__Ogbanje:__// A child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn. “This man told him that the child was an //Ogbanje//” (pg. 77)

//__Iyi-uwa:__// A special kind of stone which forms link between an Ogbanje and the spirit world. Only if the iyi-uwa were discovered and destroyed would the child not die. “But Ezinma’s //iyi-uwa// had looked real enough.” (pg.84)

Chapter 1 pg 1-8 -Okonwo's tribe is called Igbo -Okonwo was honored because he defeated the undefeated "Amalinze the Cat". - his father was not sucessful and was always in debt - how come his father wasnt sucessful? - why are they honored for killing their own kind? - why do they have to have three wives?
 * Step 1** : **//Additional Information//**:
 * Step 2**: **//Questions//**

agadi-nwayi- old woman oye-the name of one of the four market days
 * //Vocabulary-//**
 * //__Done by Shadise and Gia__//**

Pg. 28-29 //**Step 1: Additional Information:**// -Okonkwo has many wives. -It was week of peace in his village. -He broke the peace and was punished. -As a custom he was punished by Ezeani, the priest. -Ezeani is the priest of the earth goddess. -Okonkwo got angry because his youngest wife left to plait her hair and she left her children behind. -When she returned, forgetting it was week of peace he beat her.

//**Vocabulary Words**// -obi: The large living quarters of the head of the family. -Plait: a braid, esp. of hair or straw.

//**-Natalie Alvarez, Mark Roman-**//

Pg 11-12 //**Step 1:**// A women from the Umuofia tribe got killed by someone when she went to a market in Mbaino. In their culture the consequence of another tribe killing one of their own is to either go to war or for them to offer a young women and a virgin as a peace offering.

Anoka was always telling to his son Onkonkwo that he has to go up,and he has to be more strong as compare to his father Anoka .Because Anoka was a lazy person .He failed for his laziness and he died a "shamefull death".page # 18.
 * //-Amna Anwar.//**

Okonskwo was a man of war. He was against his fathers unsuccessfulness and felt his life was being dominated by fear. During the week of peace, his wife left her kids. He had 8 wives. He was a man of action and war. The tribers were at war for murder of their own kind or else a special offer is to be made.
 * //Yasin Chowdhury//**

And that was also the year Okonkwo broke the peace, and was punished, as was the custom, by Ezeani, the priest of the Earth goddess. (29)

Okonkwo was provoked to justifiable anger by his youngest wife, who went to plait her hair at her friends house and did not return early enough to cook the afternoon meal. (29)

In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace. (29)

But Okonkwo was not the man to stop beating somebody half way through, not even for fear of a goddess. (30)

We live in peace with our fellows to honor our great goddess of the Earth without whose blessing our crops will not grow. (30)

"that in some clans it is an abomination for a man to die during the Week Of Peace." (31)

"Take away your kola nut. I shall not eat in the house of a man who has no respect for our gods and ancestors." (30)

The earth goddess whom you have insulted may refuse to give us her increase, and we shall all perish. (30)

Your wife was at fault, but even if you came into your obi and found her lover on top of her, you would still have committed a great evil to beat her. (30)

Okonkwo did as the priest said. (31)

And that was only the year Okonkwo had broke the peace, and was punished, as was the custom, by Ezeani, the priest of the earth goddess. (29)

And when she returned he beat her very heavily. (29)