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In "Cell One," Nnamabia is the handsome, endlessly charming, but troubled 20-year-old son of Mother and Father, and the older brother to the Cell One narrator. He becomes involved in violent cult activity on the Nsukka campus, but denies being a cult member. When he's arrested, he continues to deny any wrongdoing and delights in telling his parents and sister about the indignities he's made to suffer in prison. He does, however, fear going to "Cell One" after watching police drag a corpse out of the cell. When an innocent old man is put in Nnamabia's cell, Nnamabia is shaken by the injustices the poor man is forced to endure. He finally stands up for the old man, and when he tells his parents what happened, Nnamabia doesn't embellish or dramatize his story.
Nnamabia Quotes in The Thing Around Your Neck
The The Thing Around Your Neck quotes below are all either spoken by Nnamabia or refer to Nnamabia. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Cell One
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They may have once been benign fraternities, but they had evolved and were now called "cults"; eighteen-year-olds who had mastered the swagger of American rap videos were undergoing secret and strange initiations that sometimes left one or two of them dead on Odim Hill.
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"You cannot raise your children well, all of you people who feel important because you work in the university. When your children misbehave, you think they should not be punished. You are lucky, madam, very lucky that they released him."
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Nnamabia Quotes in The Thing Around Your Neck
The The Thing Around Your Neck quotes below are all either spoken by Nnamabia or refer to Nnamabia. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Cell One
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They may have once been benign fraternities, but they had evolved and were now called "cults"; eighteen-year-olds who had mastered the swagger of American rap videos were undergoing secret and strange initiations that sometimes left one or two of them dead on Odim Hill.
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"You cannot raise your children well, all of you people who feel important because you work in the university. When your children misbehave, you think they should not be punished. You are lucky, madam, very lucky that they released him."
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