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Violent deaths were frequent, but nothing like this had ever happened. The only course open to Okonkwo was to flee from the clan. It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land…

“It is like the story of the white men, who, they say, are white as this piece of chalk. And these white men, they say, have no toes… One of them passes here frequently. His name is Amadi.”

Amadi was a leper, and the polite name for leprosy was “the white skin”.