Analysis of Things Fall Apart's Okonkwo

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…it had before been one in such a way that they were seldom able to live in peace, and that has been reoccurring them in the works of Achebe. The colonization of Africa was one of many controversial European endeavors, and while it brought with it the knowledge of the modern world, it too destroyed a way of life. Okonkwo was just one of those lives, but his story represents the story of a people.