and the others are locked up, humiliated, and ransomed to the village by the British. Okonkwo goes to a meeting where the village is meeting to a discuss a reponse to the outrage, but when messengers paid by the British show up to spy on and disband the meeting, Okonkwo loses his temper and kills one of the messengers. No one else follows his lead. Knowing he has lost any place he might have had in this new society, he goes back to his compound and hangs himself.
             EKWEFI is Okonkwo's third wife. She married him for love-she left a first husband to do so. So many of the children born to her by Okonkwo died at a young age that the tribe decided her womb was haunted by a kind of evil child-spirit which keeps dying in order to return to the mother's womb and repeat the cycle. Finally she has a daughter named Ezinma who lasts for longer than the others, and she falls desperately in love with this daughter in a way she has not allowed herself to do anymore with the other babies. The senior priest co
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