Things Fall Apart
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Okonkwo
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The long needed balance to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This artful, classic rendering takes the same story––a crew of white Europeans who journey by boat up a river into the African Jungle––but from the inhabitant tribe's perspective reacting to the intrusive invasion of these foreigners gone mad.
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Okonwko was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements.
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There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.
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