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Lagos

This setting in which most of the novel occurs, consists of four islands and a bit of the mainland on the Atlantic coastline of central Africa.

Umuofia

This area is a fictional region that consists of nine Ibo-speaking villages located west of a market town on the bank of the Niger River.

Umuofia Progressive Union

This mutual benefits organization has chapters everywhere and upholds and supports education as the means of becoming a modern people.

Church Missionary Society

This organization operates schools and bookstores, one of which is the source of a bible bought by one character for another in the novel.

Funchal

This is the first port of call for a cargo ship; Obi and Clara go ashore here on their way home from studying abroad.

Harrington Docks

This is the waterfront from which a cargo ship departs to take Clara and Obi home; customs is...

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