Many people face change everyday, while most people don’t face it, some people do, like Nelson Mandela and Okonkwo. Nelson Mandela and Okonkwo handled change differently and both situations played and came out differently. They took their opportunity to fight for a cause and made something big out of it. Nelson Mandela wrote books about the situations he was in like, The Long Walk to Freedom. While Nelson Mandela was a living African American, Okonkwo is a fictional character because he is from the book Thing Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. One way of inflicting change on others is having a high title and a large amount of followers. Nelson Mandela and Okonkwo both had strong, high titles in their culture, but one thing was different about that. Okonkwo was one of the most feared leaders, but when he called upon his troops to fight with him, they vanished. “...They would go to Umuru and bring the soldiers, and we would be like Abame.” Said Obierika sadly. Nelson Mandela on the other hand had the troops to fight with, but didn’t have any white followers support. To utilize change you must be an important person and be heard, that’s why the Igbo people didn’t retain their freedom.…show more content… Okonkwo and his fellow leaders used force when the white missionaries killed one of the egwugwu. “When the egwugwu went away the red-earth church which Mr. Brown had built was a pile of earth and ashes.” Nelson Mandela also stood his ground when it came to South African apartheid. Mandela was involved in many peace corps and speeches against racism and freedom. But when Mandela and his guerilla force weren’t heard, he starting using violence. Violence is never the answer is a famous quote, and this is why it is famous, when you use violence it nevers ends well. Just like Okonkwo, who hung himself, and Nelson Mandela, who went to jail for 27