Music Connection

Music comes through often in the lyrical and rhythmic writing of Chinua Achebe and most importantly it can be recognized during the tribe rituals. It is also a symbol for Okonkwo because his dad was a musician “Sometimes another village would ask Unoka’s band and their dancing egwugwu to come and stay with them and teach them their tunes. They would go to such hosts for as long as three or four markets, making music and feasting.” (5) To Okonkwo music represented his father, failure, expressing emotions and wasted time, all of which are things Okonkwo would not tolerate, in any amount, in his own life.

-Courtney H