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Obiora
Obiora Obiora names a character whose innermost being is oriented toward the collective — a person for whom private happiness divorced from communal well-being is inconceivable. In Chinua Achebe's Igbo world and its literary descendants, such characters are often the custodians of tradition, the men who convene the community, mediate disputes, and hold the social fabric together through the force of their communal devotion.
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