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Okonkwo is a typical African man, and has carefully imbibed all the vales which society considers manly.
He is thus hardworking, no nonsensensical and an ardent disciplinarian. Enough tales abounded in the village to prove his abilities, beliefs and character.
Change however is inevitable. This change came in form of the 'white man'or the colonial rulers. The wind of change arrived Okonkwo's village and he was too proud to bow down. Pride is actually one of the envied traits of the African. Okonkwo resisted any change which would make him a slave in any form to another.
There is an African adage "the palm tree that bows to the wind lives to see another day, but the strong and mighty iroko is pulled down". In struggling to protect the heritage of freedom he was born with, Okonkwo lost his life.
The story just takes a more detailed, zoomed or microscopic look on the effect of early colonialisation on the African who had never known anything bu freedom.
Published: September 17, 2008
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