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FROM WIKI:

The events of the novel unfold around the 1890s.[|[3]] The majority of the story takes place in the village of Umuofia, located west of the actual [|Onitsha], on the east bank of the [|Niger River] in Nigeria.[|[3]] The culture depicted is similar to that of Achebe's birthplace of [|Ogidi], where [|Ibo]-speaking people lived together in groups of independent villages ruled by titled elders. The customs described in the novel mirror those of the actual Onitsha people, who lived near Ogidi, and with whom Achebe was familiar. Within forty years of the British arrival, by the time Achebe was born in 1930, the missionaries were well-established. Achebe's father was among the first to be converted in Ogidi, around the turn of the century. Achebe himself was an orphan, so it can safely be said the character of Nwoye, who joins the church because of a conflict with his father, is not meant to represent the author.[|[3]] Achebe was raised by his grandfather. His grandfather, far from opposing Achebe's conversion to Christianity, allowed Achebe's Christian marriage to be celebrated in his compound.[|[3]]

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=Vegetable Market, Onitsha, 1983 (by [|hermaxi])=

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