Yes. They are most unhappy if the engagement is not arranged by them. In our case it’s worse—you are not even an Ibo.” . . . . In the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the city it had always seemed to her something of a joke that a person’s tribe could determine whom he married. . . . . . . “And this,” he added, “is not peculiar to the Ibos. If your father were alive and lived in the heart of Ibibio-land he would be exactly like my father.” –“Marriage Is a Private Affair,” Chinua Achebe How does the passage show that the father-son conflict is characteristic of the larger historical context of the story



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