Ezinma

Kim sayz... Ezinma is the only daughter of Okonkwo and his second wife Ekwefi. Okonkwo is very fond of her. She is also very beautiful like her mother Ekwefi once was. She likes to watch wrestling during the New Yam Festival in the village. Ezinma helps her mother with the chores as well.

TRISTON SAYS... Out of all 10 kids from Ekwefi, Ezinma was the only one to survive infancy. Ezinma and Ekwefi have a special bond together. They are thought of as equals. This is why Ezinma calls Ekwefi by her first name. One day Ezinma gets sick and Ekwefi goes nuts. Okonkwo finds a medicine man and he is told that an //ogbanje// was the cause of Ekwefi's kids short lives. They needed to find her //iyi-uwa// in order to make Ezinma better again. One day, after Ekwefi tells Ezinma a story about a cunning tortoise, they encountered Chielo, who said that the oracle wishes to speak with Ezinma. After a brief arguement with Ekwefi and Okonkwo, Chielo takes Ezinma and heads off to the oracle's cave.

Ezinma is Okonkwo’s favorite child, even though she is a girl. Although charming, Ezinma was very sick as a child. Okonkwo attempted to treat her with herbal medicine, then consulted a wise man, who proposed that Ezinma was an ogbanje (a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn), and after all of Ekwefi's children's deaths, Ezinma finally decided to stop her parents' grief and live. Later, Ezinma is taken on a mysterious late night journey through the villages by Chielo, the priestess of Agbala. Ezinma's health is eventually restored.