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Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
“I hope you’ve thought about coming to join us at the ministry, Olanna. We need first class brains like yours.”
Olanna’s father, Chief Okonji, says this to his daughter in one of his numerous attempts to enlist his daughter to work for the government. Chief Okonji is very wealthy and wants the same for his daughter, but in the end she travels her own path.
“Papa is asking what kind of white man is this? Why did he come here and what is he doing?”
Emeka translates this message from his father to Richard, as the father does not understand why this European tourist did not bring a camera to the Ugwu-Igbo pot excavation site. Richard did not come as a mindless consumer, however, but as a sincerely interested scholar.
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie