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There are many problems in Things Fall Apart, including

  • drought
  • torrential rains
  • laziness
  • debt
  • people who won't pay back their debts
  • excessive anger
  • needless traditions
  • excessive pride
  • lack of a central command structure for all the villages to follow
  • wife-beating
  • illness and death
  • the need for justice, which leads to Ikemefuna's death and the exile of Okonkwo
  • personality conflicts, the most notable being that of Okonkwo and his son Nwoye.
  • white courts which are corrupt and bribable
  • lack of understanding between different cultures, and a high-handedness to accompany it
  • locusts
  • revenge killings, including the slaughter of Abame
  • lack of yam splitting skills
  • Ojuigo's negligence
  • The need to negotiate bride price and tribute, with the worry that one side or another will behave unfairly.
  • Having to bury a man who has desecrated himself
  • lack of freedom due to an imposed system
  • there can be only one champion wrestler
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