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This paper studies and analyzes how women are illustrated as empowered and suppressed in the context of African society and culture. This paper also posits that, while women suffered great losses and suppression in their society, they also hold tremendous power, as illustrated in the rise and fall of Okonkwo as warrior of the Umuofia tribe in Africa. The texts that follow show the dual role that women possess in African society, as it is narrated by Chinua Achebe in "Things Fall Apart".

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"Works of literature often illustrate women suppression and empowerment implicitly, illustrating instead through actions and behavior of the characters attitudes that display these positive and negative reactions towards women. Chinua Achebe, in his novel, Things Fall Apart, opted to deviate from this common treatment in literary works. Rather than using implicit messages in his novel, he illustrated explicitly women suppression as it happens among male-dominated African villages and tribes. Using African communities as the social environment, Achebe centered his attention in highlighting how women possess both empowerment and suppression through the character of Okonkwo and the community of Umuofia."

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