Obi’s Struggle
Obi Okonkwo was a young man born in Ibo in the eastern Nigerian village of Umuofia. He was a well educated man who received a scholarship from the Umuofia Progressive Union (U.P.U.), to study law in England, a scholarship that he must pay back when he returns. He eventually changes his course of study to English and abandons law. After four years in England he returns to his native country to find more of a colonized world in which some ways he is repulsed by but has no choice in which to cope with. Since he is an educated man, he is given a “European Post”, and he works in an office in which he has no respect for their ways. He stands strong against the bribery that goes on and is opposed to his boss, and English colonial man named Mr. Green. Obi finds himself in a constant battle between coping with inferiority by the presence of the English and the original traditions of the world he once knew.
Obi finds himself at the beginning of a generation of......
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