• Igbo Culture and Symbols. 11 Feb. 2015. succeed. Although the country is unnamed, we know that the setting of the story takes place in Nigeria, where the native people are still continuing with practices which in the eyes of the whites are nothing but primeval and savage. Yet Nwoye ends up converting to Christianity and going off to school, leaving the farming life and Igbo traditions behind. Okonkwo is shown as a cruel man in his treatment of his wives when “he is so carried away in his anger at his youngest wife that he forgets the ritual of the Week of Peace and breaks the rules of kindness and gentleness3” but he is an ideal man who adheres to the custom of his village where people believe “No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children he was not really a man.4” The other side of his nature is exposed when as per the Igbo culture he has to kill Ikemefuna. According to the “whites” the Igbo culture is an embodiment of animism and the fetish of the pagan, without any code of conduct or ethics. Frühe Reaktionen in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren konzentrierten sich auf Fragen der kulturellen Konflikte, die Authentizität in der Sprache, auf seine Form und Weltsicht. Web.