The event reveals the highly masculine nature of this society, as the only way to account for violence is to rip the community even further apart. After a man from Mbaino, a neighboring clan, kills a girl from Umuofia, his village is given an ultimatum to deal with the situation: they must choose between violence or a human offering. This brief passage both establishes one of the main plot elements of the book and provides a look into Umuofia’s system of law and justice. An ultimatum was immediately dispatched to Mbaino asking them to choose between war-on the one hand, and on the other the offer of a young man and a virgin as compensation.” (Chapter 2) “Many others spoke, and at the end it was decided to follow the normal course of action.
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