Nicknames
Okonkwo's nickname among the people of Umuofia.
What is The Roaring Flame?
The first white missionary to come to Unuofia.
Who is Mr. Brown?
What is chi?
What the people of Umuofia call the white man's motorcycles.
What is an iron horse?
Ngwoye's new name, given by the missionaries.
What is Isaac?
The first white missionary's successor.
Who is Reverend James Smith?
This Igbo custom fills Mr. Brown with wrath and prompted him to suspend a woman from church.
What is the mutilation of wicked children, or ogbanje, who have died?
What the osu, or outcasts, must do before joining the white man's church.
What is shave their heads?
The meaning of Okonkwo's newest daughter's name Nneka.
What is "Mother is Supreme"?
These Igbo figures should never be unmasked in public.
Who are the egwugwu?
The number of members in the egwugwu.
The head judge of the white man's court.
Who is the District Commissioner?
Ezinma's nickname among the people of Mbanta.
What is the Crystal of Beauty?
The villager who supposedly killed the sacred python.
Who is Enoch?
The Igbo people host an annual ceremony to celebrate this diety, or god.
The first village that was successfully colonized by the white people.
What is Abame?
This is what the people of Umuofia call the arrogant foreigners who come and take over their village.
What is kotma or "Ashy-Buttocks"?
The name of the Igbo people's almighty god.
The high-ranking society that Okonkwo hopes to initiate his two new sons into.
What is the ozo society?
One of the two foreign products sold in the new trading posts in Umuofia.
What is Palm-oil or kernels?