ne. He was afraid of being thought weak." Okonokwa's devotion to manliness is an obsession that leads him to these incredible situations of violence and resistance with regard to the colonist and therefore is the reason for his destruction. Through showing the reader the foible of Okonokwa was his inability to think rationally and his obsession with manliness the author educates us on how to avoid these fatal errors. Clearly, Things Fall Apart is not only an attempt to show customs and culture of the African people but also to expound upon the notion that anger and violence without compassion will, across the racial divide, bring destruction as it so clearly has done for Achebe's hero Okonokwa. ...
