The District Commissioner arrives at Okonkwo's compound with an armed band of soldiers and court messengers and demands to see Okonkwo. Obierika says that Okonkwo is not there, and the …

While Okonkwo is exiled, Obierika helps the other clansmen burn down Okonkwo’s hut and farm, as is tradition following a banishment.

He helps to sell Okonkwo’s yams during his exile, visits him in Mbanta, supports him as he returns home, and boldly declares him to be “one of the greatest men in Umuofia” in the wake of his suicide.

What is the attitude of the Commissioner when he arrives at Oknokwo's obi before learning of Okonkwo's death?

When Okonkwo goes into exile, Obierika sells Okonkwo's yams and seed-yams and gives Okonkwo the profits. Unlike Okonkwo, Obierika questions the Igbo traditions and ritual, as well as their tribal law.

When the Commissioner threatens the men, Obierika agrees to show him where Okonkwo is, expressing the hope that the Commissioner's men will help them. Obierika leads the Commissioner …

He is one of the few characters to view the white men with a slightly sympathetic and curious eye. As a character, Obierika’s tends to fill the role of advice-giver to Okonkwo. He forces his friend to think …

In the second year of Okonkwo's banishment, Obierika visits and tells Okonkwo and village leaders that survivors of a massacre perpetrated by white colonists have come to Umuofia.

In the second year of Okonkwo's exile, Obierika comes to visit him, bringing two heavy bags of cowries. Okonkwo and his family are very happy to see Obierika, and Okonkwo presents him to …

Rather, it is Obierika who negotiates the release of the men once they are captured, further demonstrating how Obierika is able to see how the values of the world he lives in are shifting, …