in against the indigenous faith. This leads to a clash between the indigenous and colonial justice systems that ends with Okonkwo's suicide, a grave sin in Umuofia's belief system.
Ezinma - Ezinma is the only child of Okonkwo's second wife, Ekwefi. Ekwefi's first nine children died in infancy, so Ezinma is the center of her mother's world. She and her mother have a relationship that is more like that between equals than that between parent and child. She is also Okonkwo's favorite child because she looks like her mother when Ekwefi was the village beauty. He is also fond of her because she understands him best of all his children. They develop an even closer bond when Okonkwo must spend seven years in exile in his mother's native village. Okonkwo rarely demonstrat
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