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“I Will Be a Great Leader” I will be a great leader! Nwoye, said to himself. I will show them that I am just as good of a leader as my father is! One day soon they will know the name Nwoye and respect it. Nwoye knew that he had to be different from his father, he wanted to show his mother, brothers and sisters that the new way of the colonists was the right way. He wanted his family to join him in this new world and to learn the new religion. Sometime later, the Commissioner came to Nwoye and explained to him that his father Okonkwo had committed suicide. He explained to Nwoye that because of the tribes customs they would not cut him down from the tree, that, that responsibility had now fallen to his shoulders as he is the eldest son. The news that his father had hung himself shocked, saddened and dismayed Nwoye. He said to the commissioner; “He was always a st