JAMB - Literature In English (1983 - No. 25)
Artistically, Okonkwo's seven years' exile is a device used by Achebe to
to introduce comic relief
keep Okonkwo at a distance from the movement of the mind of Umuofia
serve as a warning to other members of the Umuofia community
shows that wilful crime does not pay
de-emphizes the role of Okonkwo in the novel
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