Paper, ink, 1993, 30 х 20 cm

The plot is taken from the book of a Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe "And destruction has come". There various customs, beliefs and ceremonies of the Igbo tribe are perfectly described. Before planting yams, Igbos keep a week of peace when it is prohibited not only to fight, but even to tell someone bad word. The respected and rich father of family Okonkwo waited in vain, while his younger wife Oyiugo will bring to him supper (each of wives feeds the husband by turns). Oyiugo has returned, when night already fell and told, that made a hairdress for a holiday and the it took much time for her girlfriend to pleat the braids. Yes, the hairdress was great, but Okonkwo was hungry and angry and beat his wife.

… Elders have sentenced the infringer to the penalty, and he has paid to them a goat, the hen, a jug of wine, a piece of a fabric and a bunch of shells cowries; and new machete Okonkwo added by his good will, in fact for him there was nothing more valuable, than position in a society.