Great African Reads discussion

This thread is for discussions of our Sept/Oct 2019 read of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - Notice that there may be SPOILERS (Find the no-spoiler thread here)
- Feel free to discuss anything you like about the book here: Here's a few questions to get you started:
How did you like the characters? The plot? The style? The portrayal of characters and their surroundings?

This will be the best post to this thread so far, since it's the first. Many of my Goodreads friends have read this book previously so I have joined them, finishing it today.
I liked reading it very much. The first half hasn't much in the way of stimulating plot, that is reserved for the later part. I enjoyed being a sort of first-hand viewer of older central African customs in the villages of the primary character Okonkwo. I thought his character was well-developed with background to his childhood. His pride, arrogance and prejudices were well portrayed. I enjoyed learning about the customs of the Nigerian villages of that time, it was actually quite anthropological. The effects of the coming of the British white men and their early introduction of Christianity to the native people was of great interest. The focus was very much on the male characters perhaps to the detriment of learning more of the lives of the women.