Antigone, Things Fall Apart, Woman Warrior, Three Cups of Tea, Good Women of China,

The Latehomecomer, Interpreter of Maladies, Kite Runner

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Igbo Words & Phrases in Things Fall Apart:

Musical Instruments
ekwe (drum)
udu
ogene (gong)
egwugwu (ancestral spirits)

Buildings & Spaces

obi (hut)
medicine house (shrine)
ilo (village playground)

Foods
goat meat
men’s crops: yams
women’s crops: coco-yams, beans, cassava, maize, melons
yam pottage
yam foo-foo (mashed yams?) eaten with soup
egusi soup
bitter leaf soup
eze-agadi-nwayi (teeth of an old woman—poor corn)
calabash (container made from a dried gourd)
harmattan season

People
ndichie (elders)
nna ayi (our father)
Ogbuefi (title of brother or neighbor?)
Nne (mother)
ogbanje (child who reenters womb to be born again)
imuada (relations)
efulefu (worthless, empty men; sold machete & wore the sheath to battle)
ummuna (gathering of clansmen)
umuada (gathering of clan women)
ozo (a title that had become lowly because it had become common)
agbala—woman or man without title

Adornment
uli (used to draw black line patterns on women)
red cam wood (used to paint women’s bodies)
jigida (waist beads)

Market Week Days (4 total)

Oye
 Eke
Afo

Religious Terms, Beliefs, & Rites

nso-ani (crime against Ani?)
agadi-nwayi (war medicine, one-legged old woman, shrine)
sacrifice to avoid war:
 Ikemefuna (belonged to clan, 3 years with Okonkwo, cared for by his first wife,
2 years older than Nwoye)
 virgin to replace Udo’s wife
silk-cotton tree—good children’s spirits wait to be born
fight of blame—when the Oracle forbids war and the people disobey
iyi-nwz—ogbanje buries it in order to return to torment mother
Feast of the New Yam
ogwu—medicine
chi—personal god
isa-ifi—ceremony to ensure fidelity
ikenga—carving

Religious Figures:
Agbala—Oracle of the Hills and the Caves
Afa—Oracle that told Okonkwo about Ekwefi’s second child, an ogbanje
Akalogoli?
Ani—owner of the land, earth goddess
Ifejioku—god of yams
Amadiora—thunder/lightening storm god
Chukwu—god’s house/god of all minor gods
Ogwugwu
Ekwensu—Evil Spirit
Evil Forest (1 of 9 masked spirits of clan justice; dancers in costume during ceremony)

Group of egwugwu who destroyed the church after one egwugwu was unmasked by Enoch:
Ajofia (leader of Umuofia, spokesman of 9 ancestors)
Otakagu from Imo
Ekwensu from Uli

Other Words & Phrases

ege (wrestling style move)
Umoufia kwenu! (greeting)
Yaa! (reply)
ochu (male/female crime)
iba (fever—Ekwefi’s daughter, Ezinma, suffered from this)