For ten points, identify this novel containing such characters as Ikemefune and Okonkwo, the most famous work of Chinua Achebe.
In this work, the taking of leaves from the main character's banana plant prompts that character to fire a gun at his second wife, and he also administers a beating to a woman who went to braid her hair instead of preparing food. As a youth, this novel's main character defeated the Cat in a wrestling contest, and vowed to be the opposite of his lazy father Unoka. Mr. Brown's illness results in his replacement in Umuofia by Reverend James Smith, whose strictness results in the burning of the mission there by the egwugwu, and in the end, this novel's main character hangs himself after killing a messenger from the District Commissioner. For ten points, identify this novel containing such characters as Ikemefune and Okonkwo, the most famous work of Chinua Achebe.
In this work, the taking of leaves from the main character's banana plant prompts that character to fire a gun at his second wife, and he also administers a beating to a woman who went to braid her hair instead of preparing food.
{Things Fall Apart}