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Chapter 1
Okonkwo is a well-known man in Umuofia, his name is known throughout his village and the other nine villages. Okonkwo's fame started more than twenty years ago when he defeated Amaline the Cat in a wrestling match. Amaline hadn't been defeated for seven years before Okonkwo beat him, and that's how Okonkwo's fame started. Okonkwo is a mean-looking man who is known for communicating with his fists and not his words.

Chapter 2
Okonkwo had just gone to bed when he heard a townsman announcing that all men should meet in the market in the morning.
The next morning thousands of men from all the villages of Umuofia gathered in the market, and Ogbuefi Ezuego told the men that a Umuofia woman had been killed when she went to the market in Mbaino. It was decided that before they began war, Okonkwo would go and get one virgin and one boy from the Mbaino tribe. Okonkwo was treated respectfully when he traveled to Mbaino to bring back the human offerings. The virgin was given......

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