Umuofia

Umuofia is a fictional village in Nigeria, featured in Chinua Achebe’s novel "Things Fall Apart." It is a traditional Igbo community with its own social structures, customs, and spiritual beliefs. The village is organized around kinship groups and headed by elders and a chief known as the Umuofia clan. It operates with a strong sense of community, rituals, and justice, but faces challenges from external influences and changing values. Umuofia symbolizes the richness of Igbo culture and the impacts of cultural clash amid modernization and colonization.