, was a very exacting king (pg. 33). Every year the village would have a festival of the new yam, it was a way of giving thanks to Ani, who was earth goddess and the source of all fertility, and a way of honoring the ancestral spirits of the clan. The new yams could not be eaten until some had been offered to these powers (pg. 36).
             The role of the women in the tribe was to take care of the husband and the children. Each wife had to prepare her own dish for the husband to eat and the first wife was usually the head wife. Before the female can marry, the suitors' family had to pay a bride price, after that had been settled the bride goes off to spend time with her suitors' family. The wife does not sleep in her husband's obi therefore, she has her own hut which her and her children sleep in.
             The Ibo tribe used proverbs to teach lessons in life, whenever someone came to another person for some advice the consultant usually use a proverb and then lead into a story. Some of the proverbs used are "When the moon is shinning, the cripple becomes hungry for walk (pg. 10), and another is "Looking at a king's mouth, one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast" (pg.26). When someone calls another person name they always answer "Is that me" they never answer yes for fear it might be an evil spirit calling them (pg.41).
             A good example of the Ibo's religious belief or ideas had to do with Ezinma, one of Okonkwo daughters she had become very ill with iba, or fever. Her mother, Ekwefi had ten children and nine of them died in infancy. After her second child passed on, Ekwefi consulted a medicine man that told her husband that when she becomes pregnant not to sleep in her hut but to go off and stay with her people in their village. They believed her child that died before was ogbanje a wicked child that when they die enter their mother's womb to be born again.
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